{"id":5692,"date":"2010-01-21T22:21:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=5692"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:42:42","slug":"technology-new-gateway-into-treatment-for-problem-alcohol-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2010\/01\/technology-new-gateway-into-treatment-for-problem-alcohol-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology new gateway into treatment for problem alcohol use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">For Immediate Release \u2013 January 5, 2010 \u2013 (Toronto) \u2013 A recent evaluation by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that online interventions for problem alcohol use can be effective in changing drinking behaviours and offers a significant public health benefit.<br \/>\nIn the first evaluation of its kind, the study published in Addiction found that problem drinkers provided access to the online screener www.CheckYourDrinking.net, reduced their alcohol consumption by 30% &#8212; or six to seven drinks weekly \u2013 rates that are comparable to face-to-face interventions. This result was sustained in both the three and six month follow-up.<br \/>\n<em>Source: www.camh.net 5 Jan.2010<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate Release \u2013 January 5, 2010 \u2013 (Toronto) \u2013 A recent evaluation by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that online interventions for problem alcohol use can be effective in changing drinking behaviours and offers a significant public health benefit. In the first evaluation of its kind, the study published in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,75,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-internet","category-treatment-addiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}