Psychosocial Interventions for Alcohol Use Among Problem Drug Users: Protocol for a Feasibility Study in Primary Care

Jan Klimas   ^{1, 2} , MSc, PhD ;   Rolande Anderson   ³ , BSc (Hons) ;   Margaret Bourke   ⁴ , MB, BAO ;   Gerard Bury   ² , MB, BCh, BAO, MD ;   Catherine Anne Field   ² , BSc, MSc ;   Eileen Kaner   ⁵ , BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD ;   Rory Keane   ⁶ , Dip Healthcare Management ;   Eamon Keenan   ⁷ , MB, BCh, BAO ;   David Meagher   ¹ , MRCPsych, MScN, MD, MHSc, PhD ;   Brian Murphy   ⁸ ;   Clodagh SM O'Gorman   ¹ , MB, BCh, BAO, MSc ;   Thomas P O'Toole   ⁹ , MD ;   Jean Saunders   ^{1, 10} , BA, BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Bobby P Smyth   ^{7, 11} , MB, BCh, BAO ;   Colum Dunne   ¹ , BSc, MBA, PhD ;   Walter Cullen   ¹ , MB, BCh, BAO, Grad Dip, MD

¹ Centre for Interventions in Infection, Immunity and Inflammation (4i) and Graduate Entry Medical School, Faculty of Education & Health Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

² UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science, Coombe Healthcare Centre, Dublin, Ireland

³ The Charlemont Clinic, Dublin, Ireland

⁴ Addiction Treatment Services, South Western Area Health Board, Dublin, Ireland

⁵ Institute of Health and Society, Medical Faculty, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

⁶ HSE Mid-West, Regional Drug Co-ordination Unit, Limerick, Ireland

⁷ Addiction Services HSE Dublin Mid Leinster, Dublin, Ireland

⁸ HSE Primary Care, Galway, Ireland

⁹ Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

¹⁰ CSTAR Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

¹¹ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland