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Article: Alcohol Agencies Announce Academic Emergency Medicine Department Collaboration
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- U.S. Newswire
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- April 7, 2004
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WASHINGTON, April 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), today kicked off a
major collaborative study that will investigate ways to screen,
identify, and treat patients in hospital emergency departments for
alcohol problems.
Academic emergency medical departments (EDs) at 14 institutions
throughout the U.S. will participate in the study, the first to rely
solely on ED personnel, rather than research staff, to conduct the
screening and intervention.
"We are very excited about this important venture," said NIAAA
Director Ting-Kai Li, M.D., "and are confident that it will ...