Making alcohol and tobacco preventable deaths truly preventable! Addiction as a modifiable risk factor for alcohol and tobacco preventable mortality

Baillet E(1)(2)(3), Serre F(1)(2)(4), Auriacombe M(5)(6)(7).

Author information:
(1)University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 33076, France.
(2)SANPSY, CNRS, UMR 6033, Bordeaux, 33076, France.
(3)Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA.
(4)Pôle Interétablissement d’Addictologie, CH Ch. Perrens and CHU de Bordeaux,
Bordeaux, 33076, France.
(5)University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 33076, France.
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(6)SANPSY, CNRS, UMR 6033, Bordeaux, 33076, France.
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(7)Pôle Interétablissement d’Addictologie, CH Ch. Perrens and CHU de Bordeaux,
Bordeaux, 33076, France. .

Worldwide, health professionals from all specialties are encouraging patients to
reduce alcohol use if not abstain, and abstinence is clearly encouraged for
tobacco. However, for users of substances that meet diagnostic criteria for
substance use disorder (addiction), reducing use or abstaining will be difficult
without appropriate addiction treatment. Moreover, this group is the most at
risk and the most likely to benefit from reducing use. We propose research-based
arguments to better combine encouragement to reduce or abstain from alcohol and
tobacco to systematic screening for addiction and facilitated access to
addiction treatment to make alcohol and tobacco preventable deaths truly
preventable.

© 2024. The Author(s).

DOI: 10.1186/s13690-024-01399-x
PMID: 39334481

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