Screening and brief intervention targeting risky drinkers in Danish general practice--a pragmatic controlled trial.

Aims: Recommendations for routine alcohol screening and brief counselling intervention in primary health care rest on results from intervention efficacy studies. By conducting a pragmatic controlled trial (PCT), we aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of the WHO recommendations for screening and brief intervention (SBI) in general practice.

Methods: A randomized PCT (brief counselling intervention vs no intervention) involving 39 Danish general practitioners (GPs).

Adverse events due to change in organization of problem drug users' treatment?

Aims: This study set out to identify any undesirable consequences of legislative change in the organization of the treatment of problem drug users (PDUs), which aimed to combine their social and medical care.

Method: The method used was a register-based three-year follow-up prevalent cohort study.

Results: On 1 January 1996, the law was changed to allocate unambiguous and undivided responsibility for the combined social and medical care of PDUs in Denmark.