Welcome to Effectiveness Bank alerts from Drug and Alcohol Findings. Issue 14 of the Drug and
Alcohol Findings magazine first published in 2006 is now being made available as free downloadable
PDFs (Adobe Acrobat files). Below are the last four Nuggets from the issue, each analysing an
evaluation study with important practice implications.
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WARNING SIGN AFTERCARE FOR DRINKERS IMPROVES ATTENDANCE AND AVOIDS RELAPSE
Graduates from a British intensive day programme for alcohol dependence were trained to analyse why
they had last relapsed in order to recognise and cope with the warning signs. The result was fewer
relapses without significantly increased health and treatment costs.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nug_14_7.pdf
SOUP KITCHEN TRANSFORMED IN TO THERAPEUTIC SETTING
A successful group therapy programme at a large New York soup kitchen shows that welfare services
with high concentrations of problem substance users can be transformed from environments which
impede recovery into ones which promote it.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nug_14_8.pdf
ANTIDEPRESSANTS WORK BUT ADD LITTLE TO EFFECTIVE PSYCHOSOCIAL THERAPIES
A trio of reviews of trials of antidepressants in the treatment of depressed alcohol or drug
dependent patients have clarified that they do help the severely depressed, but also that they add
little to psychosocial approaches such as cognitive-behavioural therapy.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nug_14_9.pdf
TAKING THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS REINTEGRATION BY MATCHING RESOURCES TO NEEDS
Linking treatment intake assessments to a computerised guide to local welfare and medical services
transformed the assessments from redundant paperwork in to a practical route to the reintegration
services being advocated in Britain - and treatment completion rates doubled.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nug_14_10.pdf
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