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It can be a challenge for clinicians to be the catalyst for healthy behavioral change in people, especially at the population level. That’s one reason why a special report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer is timely: reducing the incidence of cancer will depend on a reduction in alcohol consumption which requires a thoughtful assessment of alcohol policy interventions (). 

It can also be a challenge to encourage people to be healthy on an individual level. Maybe that’s why a case vignette on alcohol use makes a straightforward recommendation: start with an advice-based intervention — not counseling or a motivational-based intervention — while fostering a nonjudgemental and optimistic approach ().

Now, it can be particularly challenging to encourage adolescents to do just about anything, on any level, partly due to the nature of adolescence but also to the nature of prevention science. It’s hard to measure a preventive intervention —whether universal or selective — when the outcome doesn’t happen often enough ().

There are times, however, when an intervention happens so often and so broadly that it too becomes hard to measure (). Social media, for example, has influenced Gen Z to drink less, and many think