Unhealthy Alcohol Use Awareness and Education

This webinar focuses on lessons learned about conducting primary care research during the COVID-19 epidemic from grantees participating in the EvidenceNOW: Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use Initiative. The webinar addresses common challenges and potential solutions with practice recruitment, logistical problems such as data collection and human subjects concerns, and strategies to initiate and maintain engagement with practices.

Recommends interventions to address noncommunicable diseases and their key risk factors, including unhealthy use of alcohol, such as providing intervention and treatment in health and social services settings

IRETA webpage discussing the basics of addiction, including alcohol

Outlines alcohol use worldwide and its harmful consequences on population health

Includes basic statistics on U.S. alcohol use, including prevalence and mortality as well as links to additional data resources

Describes substance use in the United States and includes recommendations on how to address substance misuse and related health consequences

Provides communities, clinicians, policymakers, and others with information and tools to incorporate evidence-based practices into their communities or clinical settings

Presents a concept analysis of the term "substance misuse" and recommends an alternate term that is less stigmatizing: "at-risk substance use"

Webpage that provides general information on alcohol use disorder and its diagnostic criteria based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

Discusses the importance of language when discussing substance use and reviews ways to improve language used during clinical encounters to improve patient care