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Acronyms/Abbreviations

Acronyms/Abbreviations

  • AA Alcoholics Anonymous

  • ACCME Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

  • AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  • ALT Alanine aminotransferase

  • APA American Psychiatric Association

  • ASAM American Society of Addiction Medicine

  • AST Aspartate aminotransferase

  • AUD Alcohol use disorder

  • AUDIT Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test

  • AUDIT-C Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test–Concise

  • CAGE Cut down, Annoyed, Guilty, Eye-opener

  • CBI Combined behavioral intervention

  • CBT Cognitive-behavioral therapy

  • CDT Carbohydrate-deficient transferrin

  • CI Confidence interval

  • COMBINE Combined Pharmacotherapies and Behavioral Interventions for Alcohol Dependence

  • CRAFFT Car, Relax, Alone, Forget, Friends, Trouble

  • CrCl Creatinine clearance

  • DSM-III-R Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd Edition, Revised

  • DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition

  • DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision

  • DSM-5 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition

  • eGF Estimated glomerular filtration rate

  • FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration

  • GGT Gamma-glutamyl transferase

  • GRADE Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation

  • GWG Guideline Writing Group

  • HIV Human immunodeficiency virus

  • ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision

  • IM Intramuscular

  • IRR Incidence rate ratio

  • MBSCT Modified behavioral self-control therapy

  • MCV Mean corpuscular volume

  • MDD Major depressive disorder

  • MET Motivational enhancement therapy

  • MI Motivational interviewing

  • MM Medical management

  • NIAAA National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

  • NIMH National Institute of Mental Health

  • NNT Number needed to treat

  • NQF National Quality Forum

  • OPRM1 Genotype Opioid receptor μ 1 genotype

  • OR Odds ratio

  • OTC Over-The-Counter

  • PCM Primary Care Management

  • PEth Phosphatidylethanol

  • Project MATCH Matching Alcoholism Treatments to Client Heterogeneity

  • PTSD Posttraumatic stress disorder

  • QTc Corrected QT interval

  • RCT Randomized controlled trial

  • RD Risk difference

  • SNP Single nucleotide polymorphism

  • SRG Systematic Review Group

  • TSF Twelve-step facilitation

  • USPSTF U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

  • WMD Weighted mean difference