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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HOT TOPIC 2016 HTM file
Harm reduction: what’s it for?

Ashton M.
‘Hot topics’ offer background and analysis on important issues which sometimes generate heated debate. Opposing agendas have led to a shifting balance between seeing harm-reduction as acceptable only in the service of the greater good of reducing or eliminating drug use, versus seeing it as the overriding objective, one which should never be sacrificed to an anti-drugs agenda.

REVIEW 2016 HTM file
Preventing opioid overdose deaths with take-home naloxone

Strang J., McDonald R. (eds)
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), 2016.
To aid policymaking, experts commissioned by the European Union’s drug misuse monitoring centre review the evidence and offer guidance on the provision of the medication naloxone, which reverses the effects of drugs like heroin, helping to prevent overdoses becoming fatal.

STUDY 2015 HTM file
Randomized controlled trial of motivational interviewing for reducing injection risk behaviours among people who inject drugs

Bertrand K., Roy E., Vaillancourt E. et al.
Addiction: 2015, 110, p. 832–841.
Injectors at risk of infection due to sharing equipment responded best to brief risk-reduction counselling based on motivational rather than educational principles, offering a way to augment the benefits of harm reduction services.

COLLECTION 2016 HTM file
The Old Gold archive

‘Collections’ are customised Effectiveness Bank searches not available via the standard options in the search pages. Archive of entries analysing seminal studies of lasting significance from the past.

STUDY 2014 HTM file
Randomized trial of intensive motivational interviewing for methamphetamine dependence

Polcin D.L., Bond J., Korcha R. et al.
Journal of Addictive Diseases: 2014, 33, p. 253–265.
Evidence that nine sessions of intensive motivational interviewing may help alleviate psychiatric problems among people with methamphetamine dependence.

HOT TOPIC 2016 HTM file
What makes for an effective treatment service?

Ashton M., Davies N.
‘Hot topics’ offer background and analysis on important issues which sometimes generate heated debate. Different treatment services can vary hugely in their outcomes. What characterises an effective treatment service, and how can these attributes be boosted?

HOT TOPIC 2016 HTM file
What is addiction treatment for?

Ashton M.
‘Hot topics’ offer background and analysis on important issues which sometimes generate heated debate. The answers to the title question might seem obvious, but who drug addiction treatment is for and what it should aim to achieve are contested territory.

HOT TOPIC 2016 HTM file
Drug education yet to match great (preventive) expectations

Ashton M.
‘Hot topics’ offer background and analysis on important issues which sometimes generate heated debate. Once relied on as the best way to prevent substance use and related problems across a population, drug education in schools has failed to deliver on this agenda: wrong agenda, or wrong education?

STUDY 2015 HTM file
The impact of a Housing First randomized controlled trial on substance use problems among homeless individuals with mental illness

Kirst M., Zerger S., Misir V. et al.
Drug and Alcohol Dependence: 2015, 146, p. 24–29.
This intervention based on housing first led to significantly greater reductions in drinking problems after 14 months, but not in problems with other substances.

REVIEW 2014 HTM file
Prize-based contingency management for the treatment of substance abusers: a meta-analysis

Benishek L.A., Dugosh K.L., Kirby K.C. et al.
Addiction: 2014, 109(9), p. 1426–1436.
Systematically giving substance use patients a chance to win valuable prizes if they test abstinent offers a lower-cost alternative to ‘contingency management’ systems which provide rewards each time, but does it work? Across 18 studies the answer was ‘Yes,’ though effects soon faded.


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