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Helping Patients
with Alcohol Problems:
A Health Practitioner's Guide


SELECTED REFERENCES

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). Washington, DC: the Association, 1994.

Anderson, P.; Cremona, A.; Paton, A.; and Turner, C. The risk of alcohol. Addiction 88:1493-1508, 1993.

Bien, T.H.; Miller, W.R.; and Tonigan, J.S. Brief interventions for alcohol problems: A review. Addiction 88:315-336, 1993.

Gjerde, H.; Amundsen, A.; Skog, O.-J.; Morland, J.; and Aasland, O.G. Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase: An epidemiological indicator of alcohol consumption? British Journal of Addiction 82:1027-1031, 1987.

Gordis, E.; Dufour, M.D.; Warren, K.R.; Jackson, R.J.; Floyd, R.L.; Hungerford, D.W.; and Pearson, T.A. Should physicians counsel patients to drink alcohol? JAMA 273(18):1415-1416, 1995.

Hindmarch, I.; Kerr, J.S.; and Sherwood, N. The effects of alcohol and other drugs on psychomotor performance and cognitive function. Alcohol and Alcoholism 26(1):71-79, 1991.

Kitchens, J.M. Does this patient have a problem? JAMA 272(22):1782-1787, 1994.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Special Focus Issue: Alcohol-Related Birth Defects. Alcohol Health & Research World 18(1), 1994.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 3d ed. Washington, DC: Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1990.

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