Welcome to Effectiveness Bank alerts from Drug and Alcohol Findings, alerting you to site updates
and new evaluation research. Issue 15 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
articles; more content from the issue to follow.
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THE ROLLESTON LEGACY
The 1926 Rolleston report cost just over 65 UK pounds but set the tone for British addiction
treatment policy for the next 40 years. Still it exerts a gravitational influence, legitimising
indefinite opiate maintenance by GPs as well as addiction specialists.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Ashton_M_28.pdf
MY WAY OR YOURS?
Do you bristle when someone else takes the lead or gladly take a back seat? In therapy too,
directiveness matters, and in a surprisingly consistent way. Part 5 of the Manners Matter series
unpicks the common threads from the literature.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Ashton_M_35.pdf
CASE MANAGEMENT
An expert Euro-US collaboration examines what in Britain is now seen as the core mechanism for
transforming isolated episodes of care into coherently staged and comprehensive reintegration
programmes - the coordinating and continuing role of the case manager.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Vanderplasschen_W_4.pdf
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