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UN-commissioned guidance from international experts on how to mount prevention programmes involving parents and children in a joint effort to improve family dynamics and child development [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
This China-North America collaboration found some promising studies. Best established is their role in relieving opiate withdrawal. Other applications are generally at the potential stage only [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Compared to being treated on their own, alcohol dependent women experienced more lasting improvements when couples-based therapy embedded therapeutic processes in a lasting relationship with a willing husband or partner [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Treatment services do not have to ask patients to adopt the belief system on which 12-step groups are founded in order to encourage patients to tap in to the social support offered by these groups and improve their chances of sustained abstinence [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
The review which led a national US task force to recommend limiting the concentration of retail alcohol outlets as an important public health measure to curb excessive alcohol use and related harms [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
For drug treatment in England, studies do not get any more important than this – the first national reassessment for over 10 years. A year after starting treatment drug use, crime and health risk behaviour were all down, but quality of life gains were minor compared to treatment costs [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
High on the UK pre-election policy agenda, alcohol tax rises have now been accepted by a national US panel of experts as a major public health measure to curb excessive alcohol use and related harms. Politicians remain wary for reasons which cannot just be dismissed as populism [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Could the biggest ever media campaign by the US government aiming to turn US youth away from cannabis actually have done the reverse? At best it was a disappointment; at worst, it counterproductively fostered the impression that cannabis use was commonplace and hard to resist [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
The more important an issue is, the more likely it is to be contested. These are the hot topics, some new, some perennial. From today we are offering one-click access to Findings analyses on a selection of hot topics renewed every two months [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
A primary school good behaviour and parenting programme which did not mention substance use at all had later impacts on substance use as great as targeted drug education is typically able to produce – and also provided other benefits [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Compared to a typical group therapy model, holistic family therapy helped younger teens and their families get back on track before substance use escalated – but was substance use really their focal problem? [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
The first trial of implanted versus oral versions of the opiate-blocking drug naltrexone found that in the treatment of heroin dependence, the extended action of the implants helps avoid relapse to regular opiate use [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
In the British context, it was expected to decide whether an evidence-based, well structured and well resourced drug education programme could contribute to reducing youth substance use, yet the multi-million pound Blueprint study never got near fulfilling its promise [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
This booklet defines and distinguishes acute care and recovery management models of addiction treatment, and the terms ‘recovery management’ and ‘recovery-oriented systems of care’ [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Are alcohol and drug dependence best treated as chronic conditions needing extended care, or should we expect patients to recover and leave treatment? Whatever the answer, this review finds that generally the offer of long-term continuing care leads to better outcomes [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Review finds some but inconsistent and often modest support for each of the four medications approved by the US administration for the treatment of alcohol dependence: disulfiram; acamprosate; oral naltrexone; and once-monthly, injectable, extended-release naltrexone [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
From Australia the first trial to randomly allocate prisoners seeking this treatment to methadone maintenance – important, because previous trials could not eliminate the possibility that outcomes were simply due to promising cases self-selecting for treatment. Making this option available led to substantial reductions in heroin use, injecting and syringe sharing. Print publication 2004 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
An evaluation of the US All Stars programme for early secondary school provided a rare opportunity to test whether substance use prevention is best done by outside specialists or the teachers already in the school; despite needing less training, the teachers won out [Findings, UK]
Asking alcohol-related offenders where they last drank enabled police to target licensed premises associated with crime and disorder. After a trial showed it was feasible and reduced alcohol-related incidents, the system was implemented across New South Wales [Findings, UK]
New York offenders ordered to residential therapeutic communities stayed longer and later committed fewer crimes if sent by criminal justice programmes which had credible sanctions and ensured offenders understand these and knew they were being monitored [Findings, UK]
