Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access originally published online on June 14, 2008
Alcohol and Alcoholism 2008 43(5):589; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn049
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Medical Council on Alcohol. All rights reserved
Alcohol Abuse Among English and French Psychiatric Referrals from Accident and Emergency Departments
1 Swanley CMHC, 17 High Street, Swanley BR8 8AE, UK
2 Psychologist Centre Hospitalier Saint-Philibert, Service des Urgences, BP 249, 59462 Lomme cedex, France
* Corresponding author: Swanley CMHC, 17 High Street, Swanley BR8 8AE, UK. E-mail: masarfraz@aol.com
Received 12 November 2007; ; accepted 23 May 2008
| The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below. |
Despite cultural and historical differences, France and England today face similar levels of alcohol-related morbidity and care burden (European Commission, 2007
). Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments and psychiatric services are at the forefront of detection and treatment of alcohol abuse in both