Alcohol interventions and treatments in europe

Semi-structured questionnaires were designed for key clinical and policy experts, to provide a fuller picture of treatment systems including the availability of strategies, protocols, care pathways, prevalence, historical context and common barriers and facilitators for provision. Practitioner attitudes were then examined via two surveys for general practice and accident and emergency settings. Finally, data were extracted from the country reporting in element one – and sourced elsewhere, where necessary – in order to estimate the gap between need for, and access to, specialist alcohol treatment for each country.