Toward more responsive and effective intervention systems for alcohol-related problems

An international team of scholars called for expanding the continuum of care for alcohol problems beyond short-term, abstinence-oriented treatments, creating more services for non-dependent problem drinkers and designing more responsive and better co-ordinated intervention systems. Attempts to translate these goals into conceptual guidelines and discrete applications that will contribute to the development of more responsive, accessible and complete systems of care, and to discuss new directions in applied interventions. Includes 5 commentaries and a response. (Quotes from original text)