Drug and Alcohol Findings home page in a new window EFFECTIVENESS BANK Bulletin 28 November 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 treatment of drug and alcohol problems, contrasting the primacy of psychosocial therapies and the failures of drugs in the treatment of stimulant dependence, with virtually the reverse in the treatment of dependence on opiate-type drugs. Last entry confirms that motivational interviewing, the all-purpose Swiss army knife of therapy, may be more compact than other tools, but no more effective.

PROMETA drug protocol does not help treat methamphetamine dependence ...

Retention universal marker of successful opiate addiction treatment ...

No quick way out of treatment for prescription opioid addicts ...

Motivational interviewing works but no better than other therapies ...