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DOCUMENT 1999 PDF file 321Kb
How to show treatment works

The leader of the drug treatment commissioning advisory body for England gives his views on the data services need to provide in order to convince the commissioners that their treatments really do work.

STUDY 1999 PDF file 208Kb
Advice can be an effective alternative to using drugs to aid alcohol detoxification at home

UK study suggesting that shorter, drug-free interventions staffed by alcohol specialists may be an adequate and less expensive alternative to standard home detoxification.

STUDY 1999 PDF file 727Kb
Project MATCH: unseen colossus

Aided by the US investigators and British experts, FINDINGS analyses what was intended to be the definitive test of whether different types of alcohol dependent patients benefit from different kinds of psychosocial therapies.


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