ABSTRACT
The Models of Care for Alcohol Misusers (MoCAM) (NTA 2007) provide best practice guidance for local health organisations and their partners in delivering a planned and integrated local treatment system for adult alcohol misusers. The Review of the Effectiveness of Treatment for Alcohol Problems (Heather et al. 2006) suggests that provision of alcohol treatment to 10% of the dependent drinking population within the UK would significantly reduce public sector resource costs. MoCAM identifies four main categories of alcohol misusers who may benefit from some kind of intervention or treatment: hazardous drinkers; harmful drinkers; moderately dependent drinkers and severely dependent drinkers.
