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Alcohol problems support and treatment services framework
Glossary of terms and abbreviations
Alcohol Action Teams (AATs) Formerly Alcohol Misuse Co-ordinating Committees. Bring together local representatives from NHSScotland, local authority and voluntary sector, police and the industry, to devise and deliver local alcohol problems strategies.
Alcohol problems This refers to a whole spectrum of harm (actual or potential) to work, personal and social relationships, physical or mental health. The amounts of alcohol involved will vary from individual to individual and over time.
Brief intervention usually consists of an assessment of alcohol intake: information on hazardous/harmful drinking and advice, often with details of local services. Interventions may be carried out by GPs, other healthcare professionals or generalist workers in non-specialist settings.
CSBS Clinical Standards Board for Scotland (to become part of the Quality Standards Board for Scotland in late 2002).
DAT Drug Action Team.
Hazardous or at risk drinking Levels of drinking, which if sustained, are likely to lead to risk of physical or psychological harm.
Harmful drinking (referring to adults). Levels of drinking at which physical or psychological harm is already occurring.
HTBS Health Technology Board for Scotland (to become part of the Quality Standards Board for Scotland in late 2002).
LHCC Local Health Care Co-operative.
Managed Clinical Network An arrangement between NHS Boards, Trust and partner agencies to provide a range of management options across organisational boundaries where it is not feasible for any one of the partner organisations to provide all that is required itself.
PCT Primary Care Trust.
SIGN Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network.
SNAP Scottish Needs Assessment Programme (part of the Public Health Institute for Scotland (PHIS)).
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