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Welcome to Effectiveness Bank alerts, a service provided by Drug and Alcohol Findings to alert you
to site updates and recent evaluation studies and reviews with important practice implications.
Issue 13 of the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine first published in 2005 is now being made
available free of charge as downloadable PDFs (Adobe Acrobat files). These are the first three
Nuggets, each analysing an evaluation study with important implications for practice. To view the
entries click on a link or paste in to your web browser address box, being sure to enter the whole
address.
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AFTERCARE VIA THE PHONE SUITS LESS RELAPSE-PRONE PATIENTS
An intensive US outpatient programme found that for less relapse-prone patients, a flexible
aftercare regime mixing initial support groups with regular phone calls was at least as effective as
entirely face-to-face contact, yet far less time-consuming.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nug_13_1.pdf
ABUSED WOMEN BENEFIT MOST FROM HOLISTIC COUNSELLING
A major US government project found that women with substance use and mental health problems and
traumatised by a history of sexual or physical abuse benefited most from services which offered
integrated counselling addressing all these issues.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nug_13_2.pdf
BRIEF INTERVENTIONS SHORT-CHANGE SOME DEPENDENT CANNABIS USERS
For the first time this large US study demonstrated that more extended psychosocial therapy for
heavily dependent cannabis users can improve on outcomes from briefer interventions.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nug_13_3.pdf
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