Note: This program is no longer being distributed by the Rural Health Education Foundation.  These program details are provided for information only.

This program provides information on:

• The incidence and prevalence of alcohol dependency in Australia, the findings of research conducted in Australia into alcohol dependency and the various treatment options.
• Alcohol dependency: the international experience - an interview with an international expert, Professor Richard Schottenfeld.
• Naltrexone: one element in a continuum of care for an alcohol dependent patient.
• The link between alcohol dependency and issues such as co-morbidity and psychiatric disorders.
• The role of the General Practitioner in assessing the alcohol-dependent patient and treatment options available to the GP: what a GP can manage and what should be referred.
• Case studies that emphasise treatment options and the role of the health professional.
• Resources & publications that are available to health professionals and consumers on treating and managing alcohol dependency.

— Chair: Dr Norman Swan, Presenter of the Health Report on ABC Radio National.
— Dr Stephen Jurd, Head, Drug and Alcohol Services, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney NSW.
— Dr Raymond Seidler, General Practitioner, Sydney NSW.
— Dr Benny Monheit, Physician, Melbourne VIC.

120 minutes.

This program was first broadcast on 1 June 2000.