Success story: How Alaska achieved routine alcohol screening

Success story: How Alaska achieved routine alcohol screening

In CDC’s latest addition to Public Health Practice Stories from the Field:

• 38 million US adults drink too much alcohol, but only 1 in 6 adults has talked about alcohol use with a health professional
• Alaska public health nurses tested tools for implementing alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI)
• All 22 of Alaska’s public health centers and more than 240 villages now routinely use alcohol SBI

Read Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Becomes Routine Practice in Alaska’s Public Health Nursing Clinics to find out how the state achieved this success.

Read more Public Health Practice Stories from the Field.

Questions? Contact the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support.

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