| Welcome to INEBRIA
A group of researchers have got together to form an international network of people interested in promoting alcohol screening and brief interventions across the world. It is called INEBRIA (International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol Problems) and it is supported by the Health Department of the Government of Catalonia in Spain. The Program on Substance Abuse of the Department Health of Catalonia holds the permanent Secretariat of the Network.
INEBRIA's overall aim is to promote the implementation of brief interventions in a variety of settins for hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption at local, national and international levels.
News and announcements
 13/10/2008 The 6th Inebria Conference will take place from 8th to 9th of October, 2009 in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK. For preliminary information, please see the slides presented by Prof. Dr. Heather in Ribeirão Preto.
03/10/2008 The final program of the 5th Conference of INEBRIA has been published.
30/09/2008 The first number of the Inebria Bulletin has been published.
14/05/2008 The 5th Conference of INEBRIA will take place from the 8th to 10th of October 2008 in the city of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil) . More information in this leaflet and in the conference website.
Submission deadline has been extended until July 31st.
21/11/2007 All the presentations of the 4th INEBRIA conference are being placed at our website
27/07/2007 The third European Alcohol Policy Conference will take place in Barcelona, 3rd-5th April 2008. For registration and proposals’ submissionm please visit the conference website.
27/07/2007 The Royal College of Physicians of London is hosting a one day conference - Reducing the Harm Caused by Alcohol: A Coordinated European Response – (link al pdf) aimed at mobilizing the medical professions to be more involved in alcohol policy issues.
It is one activity of the Building Capacity project. For more information.
14/03/2007 The 4th Conference of INEBRIA "Putting theory into practice: Research, Training and Health Promotion Programmes in EIBI" will take place the 19th-20th November 2007
in Brussels, Belgium.
This conference aims to set a common research agenda for INEBRIA and to promote further worldwide international collaboration on training and practical implementation. The Conference will pay special attention to the following areas of interest:
- Media campaigns supporting EIBI in Primary Care
- Internet applications of EIBI and distant learning tools
- Collaborative or stepped care using EIBI
- EIBI in special settings (social work, nurses, pharmacists)
- Integrating EIBI into local health promotion programmes
- Ensuring enduring application and follow up after EIBI
20/07/2006 WHO Collaborative Project – Phase IV - report posted on the WHO website
WHO have posted a Report on its website that represents the culmination of 25 years of research in the WHO Collaborative Project on Identification and Management of Alcohol-related Problems in Primary Health Care. The Report describes Phase IV in this series of studies and is entitled: Development of Country-wide Strategies for Implementing Early Identification and Brief Intervention in Primary Health Care. The primary aim of the Phase IV study was to develop and apply country-wide strategies for the widespread, routine and enduring implementation of early identification and brief intervention in the primary health care systems of participating countries. The Report contains summaries of action research with this aim carried out in 11 European countries plus Australia, together with introductory and concluding chapters.
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