Alcohol reduction therapy can be manualized and delivered within the UK state healthcare system using lower-level trained therapists over approximately 11 hours within six months.

“so i wanted to come up with a therapy that was deliverable in our state healthcare system because you know i mean certainly it's a great idea that you could you have that kind of system but we've got we have had we've got these kind of slightly lower level trained therapists and there's a lot of them in the nhs here and so we designed our therapy to be quite manualized so that they could deliver it um and it take a short amount of time so how much therapy how much therapy were they getting in the activities they get about only about and total about 11 hours in six months”