At both Liverpool and Maastricht we are currently working on studies with more intensive training, conducted over multiple sessions and with longer follow-up periods, in an attempt to identify the optimum parameters for inhibition training to produce immediate reductions in alcohol consumption in the laboratory, together with reductions in drinking that can be maintained over the longer term. If further work suggests that this type of inhibition training is effective, it may work in a similar way to other types of cognitive training, by giving participants a few moments to resist their powerful tendencies to use the substance and to engage a more appropriate coping response instead [see (90)].
