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Implementing Screening and Treatment of Unhealthy Alcohol Use During COVID-19  AHRQ's support for the use of evidence-based strategies in primary care to curb unhealthy alcohol use is highlighted in a new AHRQ Views blog post. In noting that April is Alcohol Awareness Month, blog author Sebastian Tong, M.D., M.P.H., a senior staff fellow in AHRQ's Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, notes that alcohol sales and unhealthy alcohol use have risen dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite recommendations to routinely screen and an AHRQ evidence review to treat alcohol use disorder with medications, rates of routine screening and treatment of patients remain low in primary care. The blog highlights AHRQ's EvidenceNow: Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use Initiative, which is aimed at implementing screening, brief behavioral counseling, and medication for patients in approximately 600 practices across the Nation. | |
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