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Family Alcoholism ScreeningProgress, Pitfalls, and Promise
Richard L. Brown, MD, MPH
Arch Fam Med. 1992;1(2):219-221.
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The Family CAGE (an acronym indicating Cut down on drinking; Annoyed by complaints about drinking; Guilty about drinking; and had an Eye-opener first thing in the morning), devised and studied by Frank et al,1 represents important progress in substance abuse detection and represents new challenges for family medicine. The study vividly reconfirms that a host of various kinds of suffering is associated with drinking in primary-care populations. More importantly, it suggests, in the samples studied, that responses to four simple questions on family drinking are associated not only with family alcohol problems but also with several other potential consequences of alcohol problems for families and family members.
The results were drawn from two cross-sectional studies of convenience samples that were quite diverse, except for their overrepresentation of urban dwellers attending a university clinic. As the authors relate, at least one of the samples may have had a higher prevalence
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Author Affiliations
Madison, Wis
From the Department of Family Medicine and Practice, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison.
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