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STUDY 2004 PDF file 117Kb
Outcomes maintained when UK alcohol unit cut day programme from ten to six weeks
First a Liverpool alcohol treatment unit cut inpatient stays from eight to four weeks, then cut its day programme from ten to six weeks. In both cases there was no significant reduction in the proportion of patients with good drinking outcomes.
STUDY 2004 HTM file
An evaluation of workshop training in motivational interviewing for addiction and mental health clinicians
US study suggests that when it comes to choosing therapists, choosing the 'right' people who have not been trained in motivational interviewing would be better than choosing the 'wrong' people who have been trained; the former not only start at a higher level, but are more able to benefit from and retain training.
IN PRACTICE 2003 PDF file 601Kb
Much more than outcomes
The principles behind this treatment monitoring system developed in Leeds remain relevant: grounded in a theory of addiction, it can accommodate the shifting priorities of politicians or commissioners without threatening its scientific integrity.
OFFCUT 2003 PDF file 151Kb
Restricted view creates impression of 'chronic relapsing condition'
New studies suggest that the image of addiction as a 'chronic relapsing condition' is due to seeing it through the narrow slit of treatment populations who lack (or have been denied) the physical, psychological and social resources needed to recover.
STUDY 2003 PDF file 162Kb
Health funders cut their own costs by commissioning substance use treatment
A large US health provider found that outpatient treatment for substance dependence saved it money by reducing future inpatient stays and emergency attendances. For the health service, providing this treatment can be considered spending to save.
STUDY 2003 PDF file 177Kb
Systematic but simple way to determine who needs residential care
In this US study the criteria and the methods used to develop them offer a way to reserve expensive residential rehabilitation for those who need it and to improve treatment completion rates in both residential and non-residential settings.
OFFCUT 2003 PDF file 149Kb
Untreated controls set benchmark for alcohol treatment
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?
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 190Kb
How to identify retention-enhancing alcohol counsellors
A Finnish study of problem drinkers offers a practical way to identify retention-enhancing therapists in advance which could be used in recruitment and training.
STUDY 2003 PDF file 180Kb
Alcohol counselling: try brief therapy first
This Australian study of a drug and alcohol counselling service extended work on brief alcohol interventions to a non-medical setting, confirming their potential as a first-line response to less severely affected treatment-seeking clients.
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