Excessive use of alcohol and local medical practice - The promotion of early detection and short-term interventions

This initiative is motivated by the existence of a World Health Organisation (WHO) programme to combat the excessive use of alcohol and by the implementation of various regional strategies aimed at promoting the RPIB. 

Moreover, it is in line with one of the objectives of the government’s 2004-2008 plan to combat illicit drugs, tobacco and alcohol. 

In order to support the strategy chosen at national level, the public authorities have asked the OFDT to gather the information available about the RPIB and produce a report on the status of the initiatives to promote the RPIB that are already under way in the five regions. 

After giving a brief outline of the RPIB, this edition of Tendances will list the principal factors involved in disseminating the RPIB in local medical practice and the ways in which the Ministry of Health is at present responding to them.