Recent bulletins from the 
drug and alcohol bank:
Parental limit-setting was key to alcohol use prevention
How did a low-resource Dutch school-based parent and child intervention achieve its striking impact on adolescent drinking? Implications are that it is important first to prompt parents to set and communicate strict limits on their children’s drinking, setting the context for substance use education.
Brief advice prompts reduced drinking in GP and emergency patients
Amalgamation of results from relevant studies finds that in high-income nations brief alcohol advice to emergency or primary care patients is no less effective whether trials take place in European or non-European drinking cultures and health service contexts. Is this because in both contexts they are only marginally effective?
Computerised drinking interventions lack power
Computerisation promises to spread the benefits of alcohol screening and brief advice or treatment across the population, overcoming resource and access limitations to in-person interventions, but small and transient effects may not be enough to mitigate the consequences of heavy drinking.
‘No need for enforcement’ to control sports-club drinking
A breakthrough Australian study portrayed as offering hope to governments and communities around the world found an alcohol management code voluntarily adopted and policed by sports clubs can turn the tide on risky drinking without having to strengthen formal enforcement, but are study and results strong enough to support these implications?
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