Drug and Alcohol Findings home page in a new window EFFECTIVENESS BANK Bulletin 20 December 2012

The entries below are our accounts of documents collected by Drug and Alcohol Findings as relevant to improving outcomes from drug or alcohol interventions in the UK. The original documents were not published by Findings; click on the Titles to obtain copies. Free reprints may also be available from the authors. If displayed, click prepared e-mail to adapt the pre-prepared e-mail message or compose your own message. The Summary is intended to convey the findings and views expressed in the document. Below may be a commentary from Drug and Alcohol Findings.


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These additions to the Effectiveness Bank all concern the prevention of alcohol and drug problems. Featured are the two Canadian studies which form a large part of the evidence that in the real world something close to the minimum per unit alcohol pricing contemplated for Britain has reduced consumption in ways predicted by mathematical models – though in both studies pricing was set by a government alcohol wholesale monopoly, a possibly significant difference from the UK. Another major alcohol problem prevention tactic is mass screening for risky drinking and briefly advising those screening positive. The main limitation has been getting mass programmes implemented, one which Scotland seems partly to have cracked. Lastly, British specialists have developed quality standards for the prevention of substance use problems which if implemented would transform prevention practice.

Real-world Canadian evidence supports minimum alcohol pricing ...

Minimum price for alcohol has reduced consumption ...

Scotland exceeds national brief alcohol interventions target ...

Transformative potential of first EU prevention standards ...