- cross-posted to:
- medicine@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- medicine@lemmy.ca
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7282826
Journal Link: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/195/40/E1364?rss=1
News article (more casual): https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/alcohol-high-risk-1.6996304?cmp=rss
Quoted from CBC article:
Two papers published in CMAJ Monday underscore the dangers that high-risk alcohol use can pose to people like Lynn. The first explains that high-risk drinking often goes unrecognized and offers guidelines for treating it. And the second shows that certain kinds of antidepressants can drive some alcohol users to drink more.
Quoted from CMAJ article:
Background: In Canada, low awareness of evidence-based interventions for the clinical management of alcohol use disorder exists among health care providers and people who could benefit from care. To address this gap, the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse convened a national committee to develop a guideline for the clinical management of high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder.
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Recommendations: The guideline includes 15 recommendations that cover screening, diagnosis, withdrawal management and ongoing treatment, including psychosocial treatment interventions, pharmacotherapies and community-based programs. The guideline committee identified a need to emphasize both underused interventions that may be beneficial and common prescribing and other practice patterns that are not evidence based and that may potentially worsen alcohol use outcomes.
certain kinds of antidepressants can drive some alcohol users to drink more.
I think that’s particularly interesting in light of recent evidence that GLP-1 agonists appear to reduce alcohol cravings. I think (I hope) we’re going to see a lot more medical management for substance use disorders instead of insisting on only behavioral interventions in the future with this kind of evidence adding to the pile.