Welcome to Effectiveness Bank alerts, a service provided by Drug and Alcohol Findings to alert you
to site updates and recent evaluation research with important practice implications.
HOT TOPICS for September and October
The more important an issue is, the more likely it is to be contested. These are the hot topics,
some new, some perennial, plus some which ought to be hot but have been neglected. Our selection
gives you one-click access to relevant Findings analyses. Topics are renewed every two months. The
latest set are now at:
http://findings.org.uk/hot_topics.php
Individual links below.
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DRUG EDUCATION YET TO FULFIL ITS PRESUMED POTENTIAL
School-based drug education remains for many the great hope for preventing unhealthy or illegal
substance use across the population. Its prevention potential is obvious, the fulfilment less so,
perhaps due to inherent contradictions. Run the hot topic search to see how these have played out in
practice.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=drug_ed.hot
FOCUS ON THE FAMILIES
The list of documents retrieved by this search will include some on family therapies, but the aim is
to focus on the welfare of the families of problem drinkers and drug users themselves, rather than
on their roles in promoting the welfare of the problem user. Run the search for more on arguably the
neglected sufferers from problem substance use.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=families.hot
INDIVIDUALISING TREATMENT: AN OBVIOUSLY GOOD THING?
Individualising care so that each individual is treated differently according to their needs,
preferences and situation might seem an obvious and basic prerequisite for any treatment service,
but in practice services have often striven for exactly the opposite. Access our analyses relating
to this fascinating and complex aspect of treatment by running this hot topic search.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=individual.hot
RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION; THE BEST ROUTE TO RECOVERY?
Comments made by the Prime Minister in August 2010 prompted us to return to this topic. Despite
parlous finances, the ambition he said was to expand abstinence-oriented residential treatment. In
convincing colleagues in the Treasury, his problem may be the lack of conclusive evidence that
residential care is preferable to (generally cheaper) non-residential options. But lack of evidence
does not necessarily mean lack of benefit. Get to grip with the nuances by running this hot topic
search.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=hot_resrehab.hot
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