Attention-Diversion Training for Excessive Drinkers

This is a fascinating article: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/Plain_English_Summaries/LLH/health_wellbeing/index70. aspx?ComponentId=15699&SourcePageId=11769 "Key findings How alcohol distraction affects excessive drinkers * Excessive drinkers unconsciously pay too much attention to the alcohol-related stimuli around them - stimuli such as pictures of alcoholic beverages or bottles of alcohol in an off-licence window or on the shelves of a supermarket. * When excessive drinkers encounter drink-related stimuli, this activates automatic thought processes which stimulate them to want a drink and to actually take a drink." This dull sounding computer game has apparently successfully reduced alcohol consumption in its players after 4 sessions.