title: Tobacco and alcohol abuse: clinical opportunities for effective intervention.
abstract: No behaviors are more costly to the United States from a health or economic perspective than tobacco and alcohol use. One of the primary strategies available to mitigate this exacting toll is to identify and clinically treat the 25% of adults in America who smoke and the 20% of adults who drink alcohol above recommended limits. During the last two decades, researchers have identified a series of brief clinical interventions that can markedly reduce alcohol and tobacco use and significantly decrease the health burdens resulting from such use. This review outlines office-based clinical interventions and the organizational policies that support these interventions that have been shown to decrease tobacco and alcohol use.
authors.affiliation: Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53706-1532, USA.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Fiore
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Fleming
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Burns
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000628:therapy*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000628:therapy*