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 published in 2006 is
now being made available as free downloadable PDFs (Adobe Acrobat files). These are the final set of
Nuggettes, each briefly analysing an evaluation study with important practice implications. To view
click on a link or paste it in to your web browser address box, being sure to enter the whole
address as a single line with no spaces.
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SELF-HELP GROUPS: TRANSFORMATION FROM HELPED TO HELPER PROMOTES RECOVERY
US studies of drinkers and cocaine dependence suggest that the impact of 12-step mutual groups is
partly due to an identity transformation from someone capable only of receiving help, to someone who
makes a contribution by helping others.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nugg_15_4.pdf
SEARCH FOR ABSTINENCE FROM HEROIN OFTEN FATAL
In Australia heroin-addicted patients trying to avoid relapse by taking the opiate-blocking drug
naltrexone had at least a 1 in a 100 chance of dying within three months, usually from overdose in
the weeks after treatment ended; the true figure may have been as high as 8 in a 100.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nugg_15_5.pdf
LESSONS OF FAILURE OF SCOTTISH SCHEME TO LINK RELEASED PRISONERS TO SERVICES
From 2001 an innovative Scottish scheme aimed to seamlessly link problem drug users released from
prison to the services they needed to stay out of trouble; its failure shows how intensive and
systematic such attempts must be to overcome logistical barriers and motivate the offender.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=nugg_15_6.pdf
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