Emmanuelle Baillet, Fuschia Serre, Marc Auriacombe
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Abstract
Worldwide, health professionals from all specialties are encouraging patients to reduce alcohol use if not abstain, and abstinence is clearly encouraged for tobacco. However, for users of substances that meet diagnostic criteria for substance use disorder (addiction), reducing use or abstaining will be difficult without appropriate addiction treatment. Moreover, this group is the most at risk and the most likely to benefit from reducing use. We propose research-based arguments to better combine encouragement to reduce or abstain from alcohol and tobacco to systematic screening for addiction and facilitated access to addiction treatment to make alcohol and tobacco preventable deaths truly preventable.
期刊介绍:
rchives of Public Health is a broad scope public health journal, dedicated to publishing all sound science in the field of public health. The journal aims to better the understanding of the health of populations. The journal contributes to public health knowledge, enhances the interaction between research, policy and practice and stimulates public health monitoring and indicator development. The journal considers submissions on health outcomes and their determinants, with clear statements about the public health and policy implications. Archives of Public Health welcomes methodological papers (e.g., on study design and bias), papers on health services research, health economics, community interventions, and epidemiological studies dealing with international comparisons, the determinants of inequality in health, and the environmental, behavioural, social, demographic and occupational correlates of health and diseases.