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STUDY 2003 PDF file 148Kb
Arrest referral tackles drug-driven crime
Interim report of the first national evaluation suggests that voluntary arrest referral schemes in Britain reach many thousands of criminally active but previously untreated drug users and contribute to reductions in drug use and crime.
REVIEW 2003 PDF file 925Kb
Role Reversal
Controversial, expensive, yet promising so much, interest is increasing in prescribing heroin to heroin addicts. Just five studies hold what answers there are to whether this can work, including a probably unrepeatable early British study.
OFFCUT 2003 PDF file 147Kb
NTA guidance on heroin prescribing
Guidance from the English National Treatment Agency on the prescribing of injectable opioids for the treatment of heroin addiction based on the views of an expert group and a review of the literature.
OFFCUT 2003 PDF file 134Kb
Is your measure of success what matters to the client, or what matters to everyone else?
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.
STUDY 2003 PDF file 268Kb
DTTOs: the Scottish way cuts the failure rate
Though rare in Scotland, failure is the norm for drug treatment and testing orders (court-ordered treatment as an alternative to normal sentencing) in England and Wales, leading to high reconviction rates. Two studies help account for the difference.
OFFCUT 2003 PDF file 259Kb
Leading Australian treatment centre distills its experience in to practical guides
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 2002 PDF file 1321Kb
The grand design: lessons from DATOS
US drug treatment was under fire, over-stretched and facing the new challenge of crack cocaine when the huge DATOS study set out to test whether it was still delivering benefits, how it worked, and how it could be made better. Truly essential reading.
OFFCUT 2002 PDF file 237Kb
Audit Commission paints a stark picture of drug treatment in England and Wales
In 2002 an Audit Commission investigation of drug services and GP involvement in 11 drug action team areas in England and Wales found weak commissioning practices and the absence of management information and effective performance monitoring.
OFFCUT 2002 PDF file 239Kb
Remarkable confluence of views with profound implications for treatment
Leading US researchers argue that if addiction is a chronic condition (because the individual or the environment is difficult to change), then care should be spread thinly and extensively and assessed in terms of change during not after treatment.
STUDY 2002 PDF file 105Kb
Rapid opiate detox guarantees completion, but abstinence depends on what follows
Compared to a conventional inpatient programme, the worlds largest private provider of ultra-rapid opiate detoxification improved completion rates, but after leaving fewer patients remained abstinent. Extended text offers comprehensive review.
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