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Although it is not known which components of the sites are most important in helping reduce drinking, getting people to just sit down and actually count their drinks per week is a big first step. But the program goes further than that. For example, Check Your Drinking provides information about what people of the same age and gender typically drink. "I'm not sure if the same parts are helpful to different people," says Cunningham. "For some, it's population norms: 'Wow, I drink more than 95% [of people] my age or sex.' The amount of money they are spending...
...formal treatment that involves a diagnosis and a possibly stigmatizing label. "When you label people, when you tell them what to do and are confrontational, it basically raises a brick wall," says Hester. In fact, some studies have shown that the more counselors confront clients, the more the clients drink or take other drugs...
Drinkers Check-up, the subject of the 2005 study, helps people consider the pros and cons of continuing to drink in their current pattern. Reid Hester, director of research at Behavior Therapy Associates in Albuquerque, N.M., and one of the authors of the study, says he suspects that these additional elements may have accounted for the better results his site got. His study also included people with more severe problems, some of whom may have been more motivated to change...
...These were people in the problem-drinker category," says lead researcher John Cunningham, senior scientist with the Canadian Center on Addiction & Mental Health. He explained that before they used the website, subjects were typically consuming 22 alcoholic drinks per week. "They drink enough to risk health consequences but are not severely dependent...
...accuracy, showing just what 5 ml or any other proper quantity looks like in a cup or a syringe. One thing almost no one recommends is adding warnings to packages explicitly advising consumers against using spoons. "If at some time the dosing cap is missing, they may just instead drink off the bottle," says Duke University's Ruth Day. "That's the absolute worst...