The guideline for family doctors encourages them to ask patients how often and how much they drink to determine potential excessive drinking patterns.
That includes asking female patients how often, in the last year, they have had more than four drinks on one occasion, and asking male patients how often they have had more than five drinks.
The guideline document, co-developed by the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse and the BC Centre on Substance Use, says doctors could discuss ways that patients can cut back, prescribe medication, or refer people to get help with safely withdrawing from alcohol. “People who overdrink do not know that their can help them. They don’t know that it’s dangerous, oftentimes, not to talk to them because of the withdrawal,” Sutherland Boal said of debilitating symptoms such as a rapid heart rate and sweating from abruptly quitting alcohol.
Dr. Peter Butt, a recently retired general practitioner with a specialty in addiction medicine, said patients who seek care for insomnia, depression and anxiety should be asked about alcohol use because all of those conditions could be related to booze, especially among binge drinkers.
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