Monitoring drinking behavior with the XXXX dipstick during treatment.

@entity167 @entity1
The present communication is the first report on the clinical use of the @entity167 dipstick to continuously monitor alcoholics' drinking during treatment. Daily urine samples from 34 alcoholics were tested for @entity167 by the clinical staff using the @entity167 dipstick. The @entity1 also provided self-reports of drinking daily. @entity1 ' compliance for submitting urine samples and for completing daily monitoring sheets (DMS) was 93 and 95%, respectively. Over 75% of the @entity1 drank on at least one occasion; about half of these @entity1 denied drinking detected by the urine tests. Drinking was confirmed by both methods in 39% of the @entity1 who drank, and by the urine testing alone in 54%. The @entity1 in treatment for less than 2 months were abstinent on 85% of the days compared to 98% for those in treatment for 6 months or longer. Seventy-two percent of all @entity167 -positive urine samples were submitted by @entity1 on days when they denied drinking. Monitoring of @entity1 ' drinking was useful in their clinical management. The @entity167 dipstick was a simple, inexpensive, and rapid @entity167 measuring procedure that could be used by the clinical staff in the treatment setting.
