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Helping Patients
with Alcohol Problems:
A Health Practitioner's Guide
WHERE TO GO FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Office of Scientific Affairs
Willco Building
6000 Executive Boulevard, Suite 409
Bethesda, MD 20892-7003
301-443-3860
American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)
4601 North Park Avenue
Suite 101, Upper Arcade
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
301-656-3920
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD)
12 West 21st Street
New York, NY 10010
212-206-6770
NOTES
1 Seven percent of the U.S.
population--approximately 14 million adults--meet
the diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence.
Back to Letter.
2 This selective listing of dependence symptoms
is offered as an initial assessment procedure and not for the purpose of
making a diagnosis. For a diagnostic evaluation, refer your patients to a
specialist or use the diagnostic procedures outlined in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV).
Back to Step II, Part 3.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
NIH Publication No. 95-3769
Printed 1995
Prepared: January 1996
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