| 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
 16/02/2010 Individuals are invited to submit contributions for presentation at the 7th Annual Conference through this call for abstracts. Please submit the abstract for your proposed contribution using this on-line form. The deadline for submission of proposals is April 30th 2010. You will find all the information on registration, programme, venue, etc at the conference website and in the conference flyer. Register now.
11/01/2010 Inebria on-line survey is ready for members to help the INEBRIA Committee to define the network’s policy for future activities. It will take a few minutes to respond to it and will be invaluable in providing a snapshot of the current membership and determining what activities we should engage in between conferences. If you have any queries about this please let us know by emailing inebria@gencat.cat.
11/01/2010 The Guide for implementing alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) in trauma centers is now available to be downloaded from the CDC website. The guide provides step-by-step suggestions for creating an SBI program in trauma centers, many of which are now required to do so by the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons. In addition another guide for primary care implementation will be available shortly. The authors will appreciate if you would: pass this link on to others who might be interested, adapt the guide to whatever settings and circumstances present themselves (it's in the public domain), and let them know if you find mistakes or think of ways it can be improved.
11/01/2010 The AERC Alcohol Academy is currently organising a half-day symposium entitled “Brief Interventions: Addressing commissioning and delivery issues” for alcohol leaders and commissioners to assess issues affecting the effective delivery of brief intervention projects and possible responses. This is a small and targeted symposium to ensure focused discussion by experts. More information or contact organiser.
21/12/2009 The presentations and the list of participants (restricted access only – ask for password) of the last conference in Newcastle have been uploaded to the conference site.
12/10/2009 The 7th Inebria Conference with the title "Brief interventions on alcohol - Advances in research and practice" will take place in Gothenburg (Sweden) from the 9th to the 10th of September 2010. For more information download the conference flyer.
01/10/2009 INEBRIA Annual General Meeting will take place on Friday 9th from 9 to 9:45am during the Conference in Newcastle with this agenda . Please have a look at the minutes of the last AGM. We look forward to seeing you there.
28/09/2009 The first Inebria Europe meeting will take place on the 7th of October in Newcastle. There is a proposed agenda for that meeting. You are kindly invited to participate. Please contact Fredrik Spak and Pierluigi Struzzo or Inebria Secretariat for further information. You will have to register for the General Conference.
25/09/2009 Fact Sheet on BI Summarizesthe main findings on health care advice on alcohol and it was prepared as part of the Building Capacity Project managed by the Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia, co-financed by the European Commission.
20/09/2009 Primary Health care European Project on Alcohol (Phepa) has produced a Final flyer summarizing the activities carried out by the Project during the last 5 years and also reviewing the main documents available at the website.
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