Services Database Alcohol Screening & Brief Intervention

Pharmacies will screen people over 18 years of age, using the AUDIT questionnaire (Alcohol Use Dependency Identification Tool).
Depending on the final score, pharmacies will provide confidential one to one brief advice including identification of units of alcohol, identification of the harms associated with their level of drinking, advice on the benefits of reducing levels of drinking. In order to motivate individuals to take positive action and modify their drinking levels.
The pharmacy will signpost to specialist services for those whose drinking levels may indicate dependency.
Each qualifying pharmacy will be commissioned to supply initially up to 100 interventions. This may be raised during the year according to overall uptake.

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