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Editorial
. 2018 Nov 13;320(18):1869-1871.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.16069.

Screening for Unhealthy Alcohol Use

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Editorial

Screening for Unhealthy Alcohol Use

Angela Bazzi et al. JAMA. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures:

Dr Saitz reported receiving personal fees from American Society of Addiction Medicine, BMJ, American Medical Association, UpToDate, Kaiser Permanente, National Committee on Quality Assurance, University of Oregon, and Danaher Lagnese PC; receiving support for travel from BMJ, American Medical Association, Wolters Kluwer, and Systembolaget; receiving nonfinancial support from Alkermes; serving as president of the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors and as principal investigator on grants awarded to Boston Medical Center and Boston University from the National Institutes of Health (including National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and National Institute on Drug Abuse [NIDA], and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration); receiving speaking or travel reimbursement to speak or to consult for or at numerous professional and scientific organizations (all nonprofit) such as RAND, Research Society on Alcoholism, Institute for Research and Training in the Addictions, National Council on Behavioral Healthcare, International Conference on Treatment of Addictive Behaviors, International Network on Brief Intervention for Alcohol and other drugs (INEBRIA), Leed Management Consulting Inc (for a Harvard University Opioid Use Disorder Education Program supported by NIDA), Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research Portland, and other universities and hospitals; serving as author and editor for Springer and the Massachusetts Medical Society; delivering a lecture on addiction terminology for no compensation (meeting was funded by American Society of Addiction Medicine, Open Society Foundations, Pew Charitable Trusts, Shatterproof, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, and the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network). No other disclosures were reported.

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