Grants for Coalitions to Prevent and Reduce Alcohol Abuse at Www2 Ed Form

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talking about a very brief overview of what we know about substance use and abuse in later life and we then turn it over to Kathy uh next slide please so you can see in this slide this just gives you an overview of of what we know about the prevalence of uh different use of substances for those um uh over the age of 60 and we think about atrisk drinking as one of the areas that are um is an important area to be focused on because it only focused on people that have the most severe drinking problems those that might meet criteria for abuse dependence you're really talking about a very small of the older adult population on the order of two to 4% think more broadly about people that are drinking over recommended limits and we'll talk about that in a minute um that may be placing they Health at risk because they're drinking over recommended drinking limits then we want to try to think about those as as at RIS drinkers who might benefit from some brief advice and brief interventions to red