USPSTF recommends screening adults for unhealthy alcohol use

[rangerrebew]

USPSTF recommends screening adults for unhealthy alcohol use
November 14, 2018
 
(HealthDay)—The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that primary care clinicians screen all adults, including pregnant women, for unhealthy alcohol use and provide brief behavioral counseling to reduce unhealthy alcohol use. These findings form the basis of a final recommendation statement published in the Nov. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Elizabeth A. O'Connor, Ph.D., from Kaiser Permanente in Portland, Oregon, and colleagues reviewed the literature to examine the effectiveness and harms of screening and counseling for unhealthy alcohol use to inform the USPSTF. Data were reviewed from 113 studies with 314,466 people.

The researchers found that among adults, screening instruments can effectively identify people with unhealthy alcohol use; counseling interventions for those who screen positive, including pregnant women, are linked to reductions in alcohol use. For adolescents, results were mixed for the effects of interventions to reduce unhealthy alcohol use. Based on these findings, the USPSTF recommends screening and brief behavioral counseling interventions for alcohol use in adults (B recommendation). For adolescents (aged 12 to 17 years), the evidence available was insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening and brief behavioral counseling interventions for unhealthy alcohol use (I statement).

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-uspstf-screening-adults-unhealthy-alcohol.html

[rangerrebew]

Then turn all  the info over to the government and let them "encourage" people to behave differently.  You know that is where this "suggestion" is headed.

[Frank Cannon]

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

What the eff is this rogue group of azzholes?

[Elderberry]

By all means consume only "Healthy" Alcohol.

Moonshine History Poison additives to NOT put in your own Homemade Still
Posted on: October 4th, 2014 by Gweedo Decker
http://stilltutorial.com/2014/10/moonshine-history-poison-additives-put-homemade-still/

Not at all intended to horrify you, but let me take you through a little journey to enlighten you about the dirty tricks they have got up their sleeves. (By ‘they’, I am pointing towards those hundreds of thousands of small distilleries which employ homemade stills that go as far as adding unfit to consume substances to their ethanol for the sake of taste)  Before I go to the tricks, it is no wonder that people as filthy and inhumane do not find it inappropriate to use sickening and mind blowing (in a negative sense, I mean) equipment, or to be more specific, filthy, a tad horrifying homemade stills. They would add all kinds of noxious, deadly and venomous substances to make up for the poor quality and interestingly, to improve the appearance and other physical and chemical characteristics of the ethanol. Disgusting and terrifying at the same time, they would even go as far as adding just simply repelling manure and fertilizer to the mash just to speed up the fermentation process. To elaborate on the ‘toxic, deadly and venomous substances’, as I mentioned earlier, the list goes on like this; you would find Common lye, a corrosive alkali, leading the list, added to imply a higher proof of  spirit. Our next magic ingredient would be a blend of cleaning products manufactured by a company called Clorox® again followed by our next special ingredient known as Sterno®, a company which makes burning gel. Our list ends at two more toxic materials, namely, rubbing ethanol and paint thinner. All these “ingredients” would simply be added to cover up the hard-to-swallow, the often present, fusel oils.

[andy58-in-nh]

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

What the eff is this rogue group of azzholes?

They are a part of the National Association of Professional Busybodies, Buttinskis, Nuisances and Nags. 

[Frank Cannon]

They are a part of the National Association of Professional Busybodies, Buttinskis, Nuisances and Nags.

Thank God they are on the scene to save us from ourselves.

[skeeter]

And just in time the 'experts' have an official definition for what is a 'healthy' amount of alcohol consumption.

http://time.com/5376552/how-much-alcohol-to-drink-study/