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STUDY 2002 PDF file 209Kb
Holistic family therapy preferable to less comprehensive therapy for troubled teens
Family therapy orchestrating multiple dimensions of a child's life was more effective than group child or family approaches for US teen drug users. Extended text highlights main advantage – effects persist while relapse is the norm after other therapies.
STUDY 2002 PDF file 173Kb
Growth in youth drinking curbed by correcting 'normative' beliefs
A sophisticated reanalysis of data from the US Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial confirmed that school lessons based on correcting 'normative beliefs' about how common substance use is among one's peers can retard growth in drinking.
STUDY 2002 PDF file 226Kb
Drug-related youth work – it's not only about drugs
A rare independent evaluation of drug-related youth work in Britain stressed the importance of responding to the youngster's overall life situation. Paradoxically, in this arena drug problems are often best addressed by not addressing them directly.
STUDY 2002 PDF file 176Kb
Involving parents as well as children may improve drug prevention outcomes
A British study found some evidence that supplementing school and youth activities with community and parental components helped curb or reverse progression to more serious forms of drug use.
STUDY 2002 PDF file 240Kb
Police crackdowns: environmental and community changes sustain impact
The largest ever police offensive against drug dealers in London did not reduce street crime or availability of crack – its prime target. Extended text reviews studies showing crackdowns need to be embedded in environmental and community initiatives.
STUDY 2002 PDF file 199Kb
A way to encourage drinkers to stick with naltrexone treatment
An intervention which helps overcome the major impediments to naltrexone treatment of alcoholism – patients don't take the pills or drop out – has now been codified in a book which acts as a manual for conducting the intervention.
STUDY 2002 PDF file 155Kb
Drug users who continue to inject still respond well to hepatitis C treatment
UK guidance from NICE and the Department of Health on the treatment of hepatitis C infection may need to be revised in the light of studies showing that drug users who continue to inject can nevertheless respond well to the treatment.
REVIEW 2002 PDF file 160Kb
Community reinforcement approach to treatment comes of age
Signifying the therapy's new prominence, research on the community reinforcement approach has been gathered together in a prestigious book series. There also two readily available manuals, one covering alcohol treatment, the other cocaine.
STUDY 2008 HTM file
Needle exchange coverage key to reducing infection risk
Californian research demonstrating that needle exchanges which prioritise giving out as much injecting equipment as needed have visitors who are more adequately supplied which in turn reduces the risk of transmitting blood-borne diseases.
STUDY 2008 HTM file
Harnessing peer interaction in school-based prevention can backfire
Overall a US study found that peer-led, small group work based on friendship networks augmented the preventive impact of a substance misuse curriculum, but the reverse was the case when the closest friends of a pupil used substances relatively frequently.
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