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STUDY 2002 PDF file 164Kb
Still little evidence for matching client with same-gender or same-race therapist
Following negative findings for group therapy, a study of cocaine counselling found that even in one-to-one therapy, matching clients and therapists by gender or race does not improve retention or outcomes. Extended text includes comprehensive review.
STUDY 2002 PDF file 183Kb
No harm and some benefit in letting methadone patients choose their dose
US study shows that methadone maintenance patients allowed to set their own doses do not escalate excessively. Benefits may include improved patient-therapist relations and reduced illicit drug use. Extended text reviews other relevant studies.
STUDY 2002 PDF file 431Kb
For crack users, non-residential rehabilitation can match residential
US crack users with no pressing reasons to enter residential versus non-residential rehabilitation did as well in either. Residential care is still needed (see Extended text) for patients it is unsafe or impractical to treat as outpatients.
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.
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.
NOTES 2002 PDF file 166Kb
Residential versus non-residential treatment
Notes on whether and for whom residential care improves on (generally intensive) non-residential alternatives.
SERIES OF ARTICLES 2001 PDF file 3944Kb
Overdosing on opiates
The most thorough review to date of the greatest risk posed by illegal drug use in Britain. An international team of authors analyses the causes and how to prevent opiate overdose deaths.
REVIEW 2001 PDF file 594Kb
Cycle of change
Its simplicity is beguiling, but does the ubiquitous Prochaska and DiClemente cycle of change model simply describe the change process, or help predict and accelerate it? Professor Robin Davidson casts a sceptical eye over the evidence.
STUDY 2001 PDF file 98Kb
Opiate detoxification: spending more may save long term
British study suggests that inadequately supervised outpatient programmes may be a waste of money and that costly specialist inpatient programmes are not necessarily more costly per abstinent outcome, but methodological flaws cloud the picture.
STUDY 2001 PDF file 112Kb
Treatment and testing orders should make a substantial dent in drug-related social costs
DTTOs were the UK's first borrowing from US drug courts with judges in the driving seat of treatment in sentences intended to avoid prison for drug-driven offenders. This evaluation reveals plusses but also minuses in the form of widespread breaches.
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