Alcohol: the complete collection
 Alcohol: the complete collection

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Alcohol: the complete collection

All Effectiveness Bank analyses to date of documents related to alcohol compiled for our partner Alcohol Change UK, starting with the analyses most recently added or updated, totalling today 793 documents.

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OFFCUT 2004 PDF file 89Kb
Controversy over screening primary care patients for risky drinking

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
Just when a World Health Organisation project was seeking to persuade GPs to screen primary care patients for risky drinking, this hotly contested study concluded that universal screening was an ineffective use of health care resources.

STUDY 2004 PDF file 947Kb
Doing it together strengthens families and helps prevent substance use

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
Origins and achievements of the US programme singled out by British reviewers as the most promising "effective intervention over the longer-term for the primary prevention of alcohol misuse".

REVIEW 2004 PDF file 967Kb
Take the network into treatment

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
Distinguished US authors summarise the evidence for a new direction in the treatment of substance abuse problems - harnessing friends, lovers, sons, daughters and workmates to reconstruct the incentives in a client's life.

STUDY 2008 HTM file
Brief contact and written advice as effective as a longer talk for heavy drinking hospital patients

on the web
Scottish study suggests there is no need for sophisticated and extended advice to prompt heavy drinking hospital patients to cut down, making the case for low cost, large scale screening and intervention.

STUDY 2008 HTM file
Internationally proven community alcohol crime and harm reduction programmes feasible in Britain

on the web
Three projects have shown that British communities can generate the kind of coordinated action which new reports from the USA and Sweden have shown curtail alcohol-related violence and injury and create substantial cost-savings for society.

REVIEW 2003 PDF file 1010Kb
Just say, 'No sir'

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
Tim Stockwell identifies strategies which promote responsible alcohol service in licensed premises and which can improve public health, safety and order. The trick is to create the motivation to implement and sustain them against competitive pressures.

OFFCUT 2003 PDF file 149Kb
Untreated controls set benchmark for alcohol treatment

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
A compilation of drinking changes among untreated control groups in randomised alcohol treatment trials shows that at follow up on average about a fifth have become abstinent and that their consumption has been reduced by a statistically significant 14%.

OFFCUT 2003 PDF file 134Kb
Is your measure of success what matters to the client, or what matters to everyone else?

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
How a patient assesses their own well-being can be poorly related to conventional outcomes such as substance use. Using quality of life as a benchmark would often give a different impression of whether one treatment or service is better than another.

OFFCUT 2003 PDF file 120Kb
New UK services help you choose and evaluate prevention resources

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
Announcing two new government-funded services to help practitioners choose education and prevention resources and projects, to access existing evidence, and to develop the evidence base.

LETTER 2003 PDF file 493Kb
Blueprint not following a flawed evidence base

in the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine
Paul Baker explains why the English national evaluation of drug education decided against basing itself on two questionable US models.


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