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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]
A multi-million dollar attempt to equip US communities to tackle substance misuse only succeeded in reducing alcohol-related traffic deaths when treatment initiatives were supplemented by measures to limit the availability of alcohol. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Analyses of 48 US after-school projects for 9-18-year-olds at high risk of drug problems found that only interactive, well structured projects with supported and engaged staff curbed progression to more frequent substance use. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
A surprisingly small basket of randomised controlled trials supports the superiority of methadone maintenance treatment for opiate dependence over treatments which do not involve long-term substitute prescribing [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Whether the in-prison treatment was a drug-free therapeutic community or methadone maintenance, two long-term follow-up studies have confirmed that post-release continuity is vital to sustain the benefits. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
After showing that the safer injecting facility in Vancouver benefited the community by reducing public injecting and injection-related litter, researchers have now shown that it also safeguarded its users by cutting the number who shared syringes. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Substantial minorities of heroin and cocaine users identified while visiting a US hospital for medical care cut back after assessment and brief motivational counselling. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Two European studies confirm that the opiate-blocking drug naltrexone particularly helps alcohol-dependent patients who respond least well to therapy, elevating in-treatment outcomes to those of more promising clients. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Targeting enforcement to reduce individual and community harm is the premise of this report from a UK drug policy think tank, one which seems widely understood, though in some quarters, deeply contested [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Dutch study finds that anaesthetising patients during rapid opiate withdrawal is expensive and introduces new risks, but does not help inpatients complete detoxification or sustain drug use reductions on discharge. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
For the first time this large US study demonstrated that more extended psychosocial therapy for heavily dependent cannabis users can improve on outcomes from briefer interventions. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Bizarrely, it’s in a back room in Tottenham – at least, the bit that relates to evaluating interventions. For 10 years Drug and Alcohol Findings has been collecting, analysing and disseminating evaluation research. Here’s how it started, and how it became the custodian of the largest working drug and alcohol library in Britain [Drug & Alcohol Findings, UK]
With its attractive community-led approach, the US Communities That Care prevention process has spread to the UK and other countries. This first randomised trial confirmed that given promising towns and rigorous execution, it can curb the growth of adolescent smoking and drinking [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
An intensive US outpatient programme found that for less relapse-prone patients, a flexible aftercare regime mixing initial support groups with regular phone calls was at least as effective as entirely face-to-face contact, yet far less time-consuming. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
A major US government project found that women with substance use and mental health problems and traumatised by a history of sexual or physical abuse benefited most from services which offered integrated counselling addressing all these issues. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Keith Humphreys and colleagues report on a workgroup of US experts on substance abuse self-help organisations. Main conclusion: self-help groups are too valuable to leave to chance. They should be actively promoted and facilitated by treatment services and policymakers. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Drug and alcohol work does not get more difficult than this – offering street drinkers a place where they can start to reverse years of deterioration, without having first to stop drinking. Part 2 of our mini-series on wet day centres in Britain will also ring bells for drug workers in needle exchanges and drop-in services. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Motivational interviewing is the most influential counselling style in addiction treatment, and, believe it or not, it works best ‘freestyle’ – WITHOUT the manual. At first we didn’t believe what we’d found, but later it was confirmed by Bill Miller himself, even through he wrote some of the manuals. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Mathematical model suggests that a £0.40 minimum price per unit of alcohol plus a ban on discount promotions would cut drinking by 5.4% in Scotland, saving a life every day once the policy fully takes effect, and over the first ten years saving £millions in public and private sector costs [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
