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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Rev. 2010 Nov;29(6):631–640. doi: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2010.00217.x

Table 3.

Alcohol screening and brief intervention trials included in the systematic review that did not exclude subjects with very heavy alcohol use or dependence

Author (year) Description
Burge et al. (1997) [30] Sample: N=175 Mexican-American men and women; 65% had abuse and 35% had dependence.
Results: No difference in alcohol severity scores by intervention group
Chang et al. (1997) [17] Sample: N=24 women; 71% had lifetime dependence (58% with current dependence) and 8% had abuse (8% with current abuse); past alcohol treatment was an exclusion.
Results: Brief intervention not associated with reduced alcohol consumption