NICE Clinical Guidance 100 offers recommendations on managing acute alcohol withdrawal and treatment for a variety of alcohol-related conditions.

The guideline includes recommendations on:

• Acute alcohol withdrawal
• Wernicke’s encephalopathy
• Alcohol-related liver disease
• Alcohol-related pancreatitis

For more information, you can visit the guidelines here.

NICE Clinical Guidance 115 alternatively offers recommendations on managing harmful drinking and alcohol dependence.

The guideline includes recommendations on:

• Principles of care
• Identification and assessment
• Interventions for alcohol misuse

For more information, you can visit the guidelines here.

The BNF on alcohol dependence offers recommendations and treatment options for assisted alcohol withdrawal, alcohol dependence and Wernicke’s encephalopathy. Alcohol withdrawal recommendations include a drug regimen of lorazepam for delirium tremens and forms of alcohol dependence have recommendations of treatment with thiamine.

For more information, you can access the BNF here.

The RCEM provides an alcohol toolkit for emergency staff. The toolkit provides information on early identification and brief alcohol advice to patients along with the recommended pathway and treatment recommendations for alcohol-related conditions.

For more information, you can access the toolkit here.

The Alcohol Misuse in Wales framework report provides direction on alcohol misuse in primary care and specialist alcohol services.

For more information, you can access the report here.

The document sets out national guidance for the Alcohol Brief Interventions (ABI) Local Delivery Plan (LDP) standard.

For more information, you can access the guidance here.