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Introduction and Aims.An implementation study to test the feasibility and effectiveness of brief interventions (BIs) to reduce hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption in opiate‐dependent methadone‐maintained patients.Design and Methods.Before and after intervention comparison of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT‐C) scores from baseline to 3 month follow up. Seven hundred and ten (82%) of the 863 eligible methadone‐maintained patients within three urban addiction treatment clinics were screened. A World Health Organization protocol for a clinician‐delivered single BI to reduce alcohol consumption was delivered. The full AUDIT questionnaire was used at baseline (T1) to measure alcohol consumption and related harms; and in part as a screening tool to exclude those who may be alcohol‐dependent. AUDIT‐C was used at 3 month follow up (T2) to assess any changes in alcohol consumption....