Drug and Alcohol Findings home page in a new window EFFECTIVENESS BANK BULLETIN 5 September 2011

The entries below are our accounts of documents collected by Drug and Alcohol Findings as relevant to improving outcomes from drug or alcohol interventions in the UK. The original documents were not published by Findings; click on the Titles to obtain copies. Free reprints may also be available from the authors. If displayed, click prepared e-mail to adapt the pre-prepared e-mail message or compose your own message. The Summary is intended to convey the findings and views expressed in the document. Below may be a commentary from Drug and Alcohol Findings.


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The workings and impacts of alcohol treatment requirements

This bulletin highlights four studies of the workings and impacts of alcohol treatment requirements imposed by British courts on problem-drinking offenders. Without a control group of offenders similar in every other way but not offered access to this sentence option, none of the studies can securely pin down its effects, but what they have been able to show is modestly promising. For convenience the first entry reminds readers of a relevant earlier analysis. The remaining three are new analyses.

Probation resources too stretched to adequately tackle huge drink problem ...

Probation and NHS alcohol team working well in West Yorkshire ...

Better lives for problem-drinking offenders in Lancashire ...

Crime cut and drinking less but still too much in the Midlands ...