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Treatment Systems Transcend Individual Services. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell E3

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2 September 2020

TREATMENT SYSTEMS TRANSCEND INDIVIDUAL SERVICES Online course on alcohol treatment research moves out to the level of whole treatment systems, highlighting the simple US innovation which routed detoxification recyclers into longer term...

Australian National Alcohol Strategy 2019-2028

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The Australian Government has released a new strategy to address alcohol-related harms in Australian communities. These harms include violence, disease, injuries, road deaths and an estimated 4,000 alcohol-attributable deaths per year1. The...

Men and Alcohol: Final Report Launch

9 September 2020

Edinburgh

SHAAP and IAS are delighted to announce that we will be launching the final report of our Men & Alcohol seminar series on 9th September from 2-4 pm BST.

COVID-19- Alcohol and Tobacco Policies in Africa

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As the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the world, governments made crucial decisions in order to reduce the strain on health services experiencing extreme pressure. One way that some governments chose to reduce this pressure, was to...

The Treatment Organisation is the Healing Context. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix cell D3

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19 August 2020

THE TREATMENT ORGANISATION IS THE HEALING CONTEXT We said that of the treatment of problem drinking in general, and it remains the case for specifically medical treatments. Cell D3 focuses on that context at the level of the treatment or...

The Sale of Alcohol in South Africa During the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic

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On the 12th of July, in a bid to reduce the volume of trauma patients so hospitals have more beds open to treat COVID-19 patients, President Cyril Ramaphosa reintroduced the alcohol ban. South Africa originally introduced a ban on all...

Beer Drinking and Tax Levy in Botswana

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According to the WHO, harmful alcohol use is one of the leading risk factors for the global burden of disease. In response to concerning trends, governments around the world have intervened in the market for alcohol by levying specific...

How Do You Identify Effective Clinicians? Highlight from Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix cell C3

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12 August 2020

HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY EFFECTIVE CLINICIANS? They differ greatly in how well their patients do, so how do we identify effective clinicians? In cell C3 the Alcohol Treatment Matrix tackled the critical missing link in improving treatment...

Making the Most of Medical Care. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell C3

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5 August 2020

MAKING THE MOST OF MEDICAL CARE Selected, explained and discussed – key research on management of medical interventions and treatment in medical settings. Highlights the remarkable transformation of a US clinic in the 1950s by an open...