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Updated: Oct 15, 2021, 01:05 PM IST

Study suggests brief counselling by doctor can help curb drinking

The findings of a new systematic review and meta-analysis suggest that alcohol-targeted brief interventions, which are short, structured, one-to-one conversations about drinking, designed to motivate changes in risky behaviour, when delivered in doctors' offices and similar medical settings, might produce small but useful reductions in drinking. There was limited evidence regarding the effects of drug-targeted brief interventions on drug use.

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The findings of a new systematic review and meta-analysis suggest that alcohol-targeted brief interventions, which are short, structured, one-to-one conversations about drinking, designed to motivate changes in risky behaviour, when delivered in doctors' offices and similar medical settings, might produce small but useful reductions in drinking. There was limited evidence regarding the effects of drug-targeted brief interventions on drug use.

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