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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. Issue 13 of the Drug and Alcohol Findings
magazine published in 2005 is now being made available free of charge as downloadable PDFs (Adobe
Acrobat files). Below are the last of the Nuggets, each analysing an evaluation study with important
practice implications. To view click on a link or paste in to your web browser address box, being
sure to enter the whole address.
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SYRINGE SHARING CUT BY TWO-THIRDS AFTER INJECTING ROOM OPENS
After showing that the safer injecting facility in Vancouver benefited the community by reducing
public injecting and injection-related litter, researchers have now shown that it also safeguarded
its users by cutting the number who shared syringes.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nug_13_7.pdf
CONTINUITY VITAL AFTER PRISON TREATMENT
Whether the in-prison treatment was a drug-free therapeutic community or methadone maintenance, two
long-term follow-up studies have confirmed that post-release continuity is vital to sustain the
benefits.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nug_13_8.pdf
QUALITY YOUTH WORK DIVERTS PROGRESSION OF HIGH-RISK YOUNGSTERS
Analyses of 48 US government-funded after-school and youth work projects for 9-18-year-olds at high
risk of drug problems found that only interactive, well structured projects with supported and
engaged staff curbed progression to more frequent substance use.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nug_13_9.pdf
LIMITING ACCESS KEY TO COMMUNITY ACTION AGAINST DRINK-DRIVING DEATHS
A multi-million dollar attempt to equip US communities to tackle substance misuse only succeeded in
reducing alcohol-related traffic deaths when treatment initiatives were supplemented by measures to
limit the availability of alcohol.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nug_13_10.pdf
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