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Alcohol features in quantity in this month’s edition of the EMJ, with three original papers looking at different aspects of misuse of this drug.
The effect on the new UK licensing laws on emergency department (ED) attendances is studied in the paper by Newton et al. Have the laws made a difference? They may not have from this intriguing study, that looks at the differences in patient numbers presenting before and after the laws were introduced.
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And what about ED departments? Are they following the Alcohol Reduction Strategy, which recommends that active screening procedures for alcohol misuse are undertaken and that patients are offered brief interventions? The results of a survey of English ED departments, by Patton et al make stark reading.
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And what to do about seriously ill patients who come into the resuscitation room? Should they have their blood alcohol levels
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