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SHOULD ADDICTION SERVICES TREAT CO-MORBID DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY?
Most patients at drug and alcohol services suffer depression and/or anxiety, far too many and
usually not severely enough to engage mental health teams. Faced with this huge problem, should
services offer special mental health therapies, or is substance-focused treatment sufficient?
According to this review, the answers may be different for the two types of emotional problems.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Hesse_M_4.txt
LITTLE LONG-TERM DISADVANTAGE FROM CHOOSING NON-ABSTINENCE DRINKING GOALS
Data from the largest alcohol treatment trial in Britain is used to address possibly the most
contentious issue in the field - whether services should offer moderation as well as abstinence
goals to dependent clients. Advise then let the patient choose, seems the general conclusion.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Adamson_SJ_4.txt
LARGEST ANALYSIS TO DATE OFFERS PRACTICE INSIGHTS IN TO MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
Better than treatment as usual but not than other specific therapies are the headlines from the most
comprehensive synthesis of motivational interviewing studies to date. Along the way are insights in
to the equivocal value of manuals and of feeding back assessment results to patients.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Lundahl_B_2.txt
BUPRENORPHINE MOST EFFECTIVE DETOXIFICATION MEDICATION
A new methodology enabling a more comprehensive analysis of results of relevant studies has revealed
that buprenorphine probably has the edge over methadone among the main medications used to help
dependent patients complete withdrawal from heroin and allied drugs. But if patients actually choose
the least effective medications, they work just as well.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Meader_N_1.txt
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