Drugs: the complete collection
 Drugs: the complete collection

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Drugs: the complete collection

All Effectiveness Bank analyses to date of documents related to use and problem use of illegal drugs starting with the analyses most recently added or updated, totalling today 815 documents.

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STUDY 2004 PDF file 164Kb
Female crack smokers respond well to standard HIV risk-reduction sessions

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
Outreach work among inner-city female drug users in Atlanta demonstrated the potential impact of just two standard sessions addressing the sex- and drug-related HIV risk of crack smokers, but also the utility of more customised help, especially for injectors.

STUDY 2004 PDF file 165Kb
Check how your former patients are doing

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
In Chicago a simple quarterly check up on how former patients were doing doubled the number of relapsers who returned to treatment and hastened their return, in the end cutting the numbers still in need of help.

STUDY 2004 PDF file 156Kb
Prison treatment in Scotland fails to impress

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
The first published findings from the national Scottish drug treatment evaluation highlighted the relative inadequacy and ineffectiveness of treatment inside as opposed to outside prison.

STUDY 2004 PDF file 159Kb
Methadone maintenance as low-cost lifesaver

Masson Sees
in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
US studies find that even when slow methadone detoxification is bolstered by psychosocial therapy and aftercare, methadone maintenance does better at prolonging the lives of opiate-dependent patients at relatively little extra cost.

STUDY 2004 PDF file 166Kb
Dual diagnosis add-on to mental health services improves outcomes

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
A unique British study has found that treatment-resistant schizophrenic patients benefit from additional integrated substance use/mental health therapy, which may also save costs by reducing the need for inpatient care.

NASTY SURPRISES 2004 PDF file 211Kb
Confident kids ... like to party

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
Research challenging the presumption that because it is 'bad', then youth substance use must also be caused by and cause other 'bad' things. The nasty surprise is that by fostering socially skilled youngsters keen on sports, we can also be fostering substance use.

IN PRACTICE 2004 PDF file 418Kb
Giving the silent majority a voice

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
Constrained by guidelines and standards, a UK prescribing service could do little to respond to user survey feedback.

OFFCUT 2003 PDF file 259Kb
Leading Australian treatment centre distills its experience in to practical guides

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
The Turning Point Centre has to date produced nine manuals distilling its considerable research and practice experience on among other topics, psychosocial therapies, harm reduction, managing withdrawal, and aftercare.

STUDY 2004 PDF file 607Kb
Opiate antagonist treatment risks overdose

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
The most comprehensive recent study of serious medical incidents during and after treatment for opioid dependence highlighted the risk of overdose death when patients stop taking opiate-blocking drugs. In comparison, substitute prescribing was safer even after the patient had left treatment.

STUDY 2004 PDF file 241Kb
British study queries use of sniffer dogs to detect pupils' drug use

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
An evaluation commissioned by Bedfordshire Police concluded that walking secondary school pupils past police sniffer dogs trained to identify drug residues increased the costs and risks of police visits to school but added little in the way of benefits.


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