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Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Managing Coerced Alcohol Treatment

Book

14 June 2017

Key studies on the role of management in the treatment of problem drinking in criminal justice settings and/or to safeguard the community. Just as for practitioners, for managers the challenge is to extract therapeutic benefit out of a...

Prevention and Treatment for Drug Use in Rural Settings

Book

13 June 2017

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently published what the organisation describes as ‘an awareness-raising tool’ aimed at policy-makers, public health officials, local authorities and other stakeholders. Its intent...

High-Risk Drug Use and New Psychoactive Substances

Book

13 June 2017

‘High-risk drug use and new psychoactive substances’, a new report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), takes a look at the emergence of more problematic forms of new psychoactive substance use among a...

For Whom Does Prison-Based Drug Treatment Work? Results from a Randomized Experiment

Scientific article

30 November 2014

For the first time in a prison setting, a randomised trial has rigorously compared intensive residential therapeutic community treatment to outpatient counselling. Confounding expectations, the US prison for problem drug users which hosted...

Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: What's There to Learn?

Scientific article

7 June 2017

This misuse of prescription opioids is a major public health challenge. Buprenorphine-naloxone (bup-nx) is typically used to treat opioid use disorders. However, the drug’s clinical trial primarily involved heroin users. It was therefore...

A Possible New Treatment for Alcohol Disorders?

Scientific article

6 June 2017

New research published in the journal Biological Psychiartry points to a novel way for the treatment of alcoholism. This would look to reduce motivation for drinking instead of altering the effects of alcohol, itself. Indeed, the study...

Technology and Smoking Cessation: Are Personalised Emails Effective for Would-be Quitters?

Scientific article

30 May 2017

A new American Cancer Society study published in the journal Tobacco Control suggests that regularly receiving personalised emails with tips for quitting amongst other information could be as effective at reducing the rate of smoking as...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment not for the Patient but for the Community

Book

17 May 2017

The final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix enters the domain of treatment organised not primarily for the patient, but to safeguard the wider community, encountering what seems a core contradiction depicted on the cover of WHO guidance...

Treatment of Skid-Row Alcoholics with Disulfiram

Scientific article

1 January 1966

Conducted in 1962 and 1963 in Atlanta in the USA, the featured article seems the first to have tested whether problem-drinking offenders will take a drug which enforces abstinence by generating deterrent reactions to alcohol, if the...

Adult Substance Misuse Statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS)

Scientific article

12 May 2017

This report brings together information on people receiving specialist interventions for drug problems and for problem drinking in England, other than patients receiving this treatment in prison. Analysed textually and pictorially through...

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