Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 21 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Alfred Uhl, Julian Strizek, Blaine Stothard, Axel Klein, Aysel Sultan

Paternalism and alcohol policy

Kari Poikolainen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what degree scientific evidence supports contemporary paternalistic alcohol policy practices targeting fully competent adults.

Treating patients with multiple substance use in accordance with their personal treatment goals: a new paradigm for addiction treatment

Joachim Körkel

This paper aims to present the theoretical foundation and practical approach of “open-target addiction treatment” (OTAT). Traditional treatment programmes are usually-oriented…

Reduced drinking and harm reduction in the treatment of alcohol use disorders

Gallus Bischof, Nikolaus Lange, Hans Juergen Rumpf, Ulrich W. Preuss

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the scientific evidence for reduced drinking in alcohol use disorders. While the aim of alcohol use disorders (AUD) treatment…

How to achieve greater comparability-suggested ways to improve the determination of treatment gap and treatment lag

Michael Patrick Schaub

The aim of this paper is to reveal these problems and to derive recommendations for improvement. In the field of alcohol use disorders (AUDs), two common complaints are the large…

Benefits and hazards of alcohol-the J-shaped curve and public health

Erik Skovenborg, Morten Grønbæk, R. Curtis Ellison

The purpose of this paper is a review of updated evidence of a J-shaped association between alcohol consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and all-cause…

The J-shaped curve-conceptual and methodological challenges

Morten Grønbæk, R. Curtis Ellison, Erik Skovenborg

The purpose of this paper is to review the conceptual and methodological challenges of a J-shaped association between alcohol consumption (AC), coronary heart disease (CHD) and…

Using Mendelian randomization to evaluate the effects of alcohol consumption on the risk of coronary heart disease

R. Curtis Ellison, Morten Grønbæk, Erik Skovenborg

This paper aims to evaluate the use of Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses for judging the effects of alcohol consumption on the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).