Alcohol Use: Assessment, Withdrawal Management, Treatment and Therapy: Ethical Practice

403 Pages·2023·9.492 MB·English

by  David B. Cooper

Alcohol Use: Assessment,
Withdrawal Management,
Treatment and Therapy
Ethical Practice
David B. Cooper
Editor
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Alcohol Use: Assessment, Withdrawal
Management, Treatment and Therapy
David B. Cooper
Editors
Alcohol Use: Assessment,
Withdrawal Management,
Treatment and Therapy
Ethical Practice
Editor
David B. Cooper
Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
Middlesex University
Horsham, West Sussex, UK
ISBN 978-3-031-18380-5 ISBN 978-3-031-18381-2 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18381-2
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This book is dedicated to my wife, Jo Cooper.
By the time this textbook is published, Jo and
I will have been married for 50 years.
Throughout that time, Jo has supported me in
whatever I do, she has co-authored textbooks
and articles alongside me and functioned as
second editor for all 13 books that I have
either written and/or edited since 1994. Even
through my ill health problems, Jo has
always cared for me and looked after me
when I was unable to do so. And I will
always be eternally grateful to my wife, my
love, and my friend. Jo is a retired
Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist in
Palliative Care, and during that time she has
been as dedicated to those she meets both
professionally or privately offering the
utmost ethical care and practice throughout.
Thank you. In addition, I would like to
dedicate this, my final textbook, to my
children (Philip, Marc, and Caroline) and my
grandchildren (Ella, Megan, Daisy, Daniel,
Noah, Alfred, and Elijah). All have special
place in my heart, and I thank them for
supporting my work throughout the years,
and for caring and loving me. Thank you.
Acknowledgement
I am grateful to all the contributors for having faith in me to produce a valued text
and I thank them for their hard work, support, and encouragement. I hope that faith
proves correct. Thank you to those who have commented along the way and whose
patience has been outstanding.
Many people have helped me along my career paths and life—too many to name
individually. Most of them do not even know what impact they have had on me.
Many were individuals who touched my professional life and who contributed most
to my knowledge and understanding, leading me to appreciate the importance of
compassion in care… and my effort to move towards this in practice and life.
My sincere thanks to my friends and colleagues along my career paths: those
who have touched my life in a positive way—and a minority, in a negative way (for
I have always learned from the negative in life to ensure that I do better for others
next time).
A final heartfelt statement: any errors, omissions, inaccuracies, or deficiencies
within these pages are my responsibility.
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
David B. Cooper
2 Alcohol Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Bernadette Solomon
3 Transcultural Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Daryl Mahon
4 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
and Questioning+ (LGBTQ+) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Alfonso Pezzella
5 Mental Health Problems Associated with Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Daren Lee
6 Physical Problems Associated with Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Chris Holmwood and Victoria Cock
7 Alcohol Use in Forensic Mental Health and Criminal
Justice Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Mary Munro and Lolita Alfred
8 Supporting and Including Families in Professional Care
for Alcohol Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Richard Velleman, Miriam Sequeira, and Urvita Bhatia
9 Responses and Referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Scott Macpherson and Dan Warrender
10 Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Michael Hazelton, Ellen Sinclair, and Hayley Wicks
11 Child, Adolescent and Young Adult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Philip D. James
12 Alcohol Use During Pregnancy and Its Impacts on a Child’s Life . . . . 193
Penny A. Cook, Alan D. Price, and Raja A. S. Mukherjee
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13 Female Adult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Jacqueline (Jacky) Talmet
14 Male Adult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Jacqueline (Jacky) Talmet and Susan Gates
15 Older Adult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Marilyn White-Campbell, David Brown, Peter R. Butt, and
W. J. Wayne Skinner
16 Binge Drinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Simon Hall and Natalie Finch
17 Brief Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Catherine Haighton and Peter J. Kruithof
18 Preparation for Detoxification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Christos Kouimtsidis, Musa Sami, and Nicola Kalik
19 Drugs Used in Withdrawal Management and Post-Withdrawal
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Michael F. Weaver, Judy H. Hong, and Adrienne Gilmore-Thomas
20 Hospital Withdrawal Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Fiona Robinson
21 Home Withdrawal Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
David B. Cooper
22 Relapse and Relapse Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Steven M. Melemis
23 Motivational Interviewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Lyn Williams
24 Problematic Alcohol Use Within End-of- Life Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Gary Witham
Editor and Contributors
About the Editor
David B. Cooper has specialised in mental health and substance use for over 45

years. He has worked as a practitioner, manager, researcher, author, lecturer, and
consultant. He has served as editor, or editor-in-chief, of several journals, most
recently as editor-in-chief of Mental Health and Substance Use. David is currently
an Associate Editor: nursing and dual diagnosis for the Journal of Substance Use.
He has published widely and is ‘credited with enhancing the understanding and
development of community detoxification for people experiencing alcohol with-
drawal’ (Nursing Council on Alcohol; Sigma Theta Tau International citations).
Seminal work includes Alcohol Home Detoxification and Assessment and Alcohol
Use, both published by Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford, UK. David edited a series of
seven textbooks series titled Mental Health and Substance Use, all published by
Routledge, New York: USA and he co-edited with Jo Cooper three book series titled
Palliative Care within Mental Health. He has authored many chapters, including
one for the World Health Organization on community detoxification, and articles
throughout his career. David is currently looking for a new publisher to take forward
as publisher of the International Journal of Mental Health and Substance Use.
Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Middlesex University, Horsham,
West Sussex, UK
Contributors
Lolita Alfred is a lecturer and admissions lead for Mental Health at City University

of London. She teaches across a variety of areas in mental health but is most passion-
ate about substance use, and more specifically alcohol. She is a registered mental
health nurse who has worked in forensic mental health where she specialised in sup-
porting individuals who struggled with substance use, and/or substance-related
offending. Upon the realisation that she wanted to support a wider range of people
who may be struggling with substance use and a desire to contribute towards health
promotion and prevention work; she earned a Master’s in Public Health (MPH), and
then spent a number of years working in public health, coordinating community level
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alcohol harm reduction initiatives and contributing towards the development of alco-
hol harm reduction strategies. She has had the privilege of working collaboratively on
alcohol harm reduction with a wide range of stakeholders, community members, pro-
fessionals across primary care, secondary care, the third sector, and with professionals
from the police service, criminal justice system, trading standards, and pub licensees.
School of Health Sciences, University of London, London, UK
Urvita Bhatia is a psychologist and clinical researcher. She is a Research Fellow at

the Addictions Research Group in Sangath and is part of the NIHR Global Health
Research Group focused on developing a package of care for the mental health of sur-
vivors of violence in South Asia. She was previously awarded a Wellcome Trust DBT
India Alliance Research Training Fellowship to work on the adaptation of an evidence-
based intervention for family members affected by a relative’s alcohol use. Urvita is
also currently pursuing her doctoral studies at Oxford Brookes University (Oxford,
UK) through a Global Challenges Research Award. Her PhD is focused on the develop-
ment of a sports-based adolescent substance use prevention programme in India. She
trained in Clinical Psychology in India before completing her MSc in Global Mental
Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and King’s College
London (London, UK). Urvita has been working for most of the last decade with the
Indian mental health research NGO, Sangath (Goa, India) and has focused her efforts
on interventional research. Her research and clinical interests span community-based
prevention and treatment approaches for substance use-related problems, for both indi-
viduals and families, and the development and evaluation of such interventions. She is
also interested in culturally appropriate treatments for addictions, gender-based vio-
lence, particularly intimate partner violence, and common mental disorders.
Addictions Research Group, Sangath Community Health NGO, Goa, India
Department of Psychology, Health and Professional Development, Oxford Brookes
University, Oxford, UK
David Brown has over 30 years of experience in applied social and health research,

with expertise in the use of multiple methods and community-based research. His
career has included holding the positions of Research Director with the Addictions
Foundation of Manitoba, Senior Scientist with the University of Wisconsin Faculty
of Medicine, and Research Scientist and Policy Adviser with BC Mental Health and
Addiction Services. David contributed the development and implementation of
Canada’s National Treatment Strategy. David has collaborated on several major
projects related to service-level and system-level initiatives to improve substance
use prevention or intervention. His work has included authoring client-centred brief
intervention workbooks to support those striving to reduce or stop their use of alco-
hol, use of cannabis, or gambling.
Pathway Research, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Peter R. Butt is a graduate of McMaster University Medical School in Hamilton,

Ontario. He is a Certificant and Fellow with the College of Family Physicians of