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and new evaluation research. This bulletin lists documents added to the Effectiveness Bank database.
Though all will be related to evaluations of drug or alcohol interventions, they have not been
selected for their particular merit or relevance to Britain and entries make no attempt to validate
the facts or interpretations given by the authors or to offer a critical commentary.
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VISIBLE MINORITY DRUG USERS IN THE EUROPEAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
UK-based audit of race equality practice in seven European nations based on interviews with staff,
service users and prisoners or ex-prisoners. Reveals that responses are colour-coded even if not
overtly racist and recommends practice improvements.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Adams_N_2.cab
REVIEW OF MEDICATIONS TO REDUCE CRAVING FOR HEROIN
The observation that even among methadone-maintained patients, craving can precipitate treatment
drop-out or relapse to heroin use led to this search for evidence that other medications can help
suppress the urge to use; buprenorphine had the best research record to date.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Fareed_A_5.cab
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DRINKING AND DISEASE ACROSS A POPULATION
Comprehensive assessment of which diseases and other forms of ill health are caused or aggravated by
drinking, how these impacts vary with the amount drunk, and whether heavy drinking occasions as well
as heavy average consumption contribute to ill health.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Rehm_J_9.cab
SHORT AND LONG-TERM IMPACTS OF ALCOHOL TAXES ON MORTALITY RATES
On the basis of US state-level data, concludes that higher alcohol taxes reduce the death rate by
cutting consumption. Beneficial effects of moderate drinking in middle age are more than
counter-balanced by adverse effects of heavier drinking and acute deaths in younger groups.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Cook_PJ_1.cab
ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWNS FAIL TO REDUCE DRINK-DRIVING IN FRANCE
Concludes that the low risk of getting caught and the embededness of drinking in the social life of
France meant that, despite a big impact on speeding, traffic violation crackdowns did not reduce the
prevalence of drink-driving.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Constant_A_2.cab
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The following three entries are from the same US study.
ETHNICITY AFFECTS WHO CUTS BACK AFTER EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT BRIEF ALCOHOL INTERVENTION
At a US emergency department, a brief conversation about the pros and cons of their risky drinking
and offers of support for any efforts to reduce harm led (compared to assessment and usual care) to
extra reductions in the drinking of Hispanic patients but not white or black patients.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Field_CA_3.cab
MATCHING ETHNICITY OF PATIENTS AND COUNSELLORS MAXIMISES IMPACT OF BRIEF ALCOHOL INTERVENTION
At a US emergency department, a brief conversation about the pros and cons of their risky drinking
and offers of support for any efforts to reduce harm led to extra reductions in the drinking of
Hispanic patients which were greatest when they were matched to Hispanic and Spanish-speaking
counsellors.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Field_CA_4.cab
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT BRIEF ALCOHOL INTERVENTION WORKS ONLY FOR DEPENDENT PATIENTS
At a US emergency department, a brief conversation about the pros and cons of their risky drinking
and offers of support for any efforts to reduce harm curbed drinking among alcohol-dependent
patients; non-dependent patients tended to do better with assessment and usual care only.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Field_CA_5.cab
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