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to recent evaluation studies and reviews with important practice implications. Though tailored for
the UK, this selection will be of international interest. This alert features our latest bulletin.
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COMPULSORY DRUG TESTING AND ASSESSMENT NETS FEW TREATMENT ENTRANTS AT HIGH COST
The Scottish government withdrew funding when it saw this evaluation of testing for heroin or
cocaine use on arrest. It looked like a very expensive way to get very few users in to treatment -
at two of the three sites, six to eight times more costly per treatment entry than voluntary arrest
referral.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Skellington_S_1.txt
COMPUTERISED COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY CUTS SUBSTANCE USE BY A THIRD
An interactive computer program may offer a way to overcome the shortage of trained
cognitive-behavioural therapists; program access twice a week reduced substance use by a third at a
US counselling service dealing mainly with cocaine and alcohol users.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Carroll_KM_22.txt
LIMITS ON METHADONE TREATMENT IN NORWAY REVEAL ITS LIFESAVING POTENTIAL
Limited access to opiate substitute prescribing in Norway paved the way for a study which suggested
that if 100 people are made to wait for treatment, an extra one or two will die per year compared to
treatment being made immediately available.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Clausen_T_1.txt
INTENSIVE SUPPORT HELPS DRUG PROBLEM WELFARE APPLICANTS QUIT USING
Further demonstration from a US research team that relatively intensive case management support does
help welfare applicants overcome substance use problems - except in this case heroin dependent
applicants already in methadone prescribing programmes.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Morgenstern_J_15.txt
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