EFFECTIVENESS BANK BULLETIN 21 JUNE 2012
A new bulletin has collated the latest additions to the Effectiveness Bank. Included is a new entry
showing how in Belgium a simple feedback intervention dramatically improved treatment retention.
Also alcohol treatment medications (forefronting naltrexone, newly licensed for this role in
Britain), safeguarding pub/club-goers, and a Scottish verdict on computer-based alcohol
interventions.
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*new* SIMPLE FEEDBACK INTERVENTION DRAMATICALLY IMPROVES TREATMENT RETENTION
Young adult multi-drug users in Belgium who often soon dropped out of treatment were much more
likely to stay in counselling when their therapists structured sessions by feeding back assessments
of their motivation and recovery resources.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Raes_V_1.cab
HALF CENTURY OF EVIDENCE ON WHICH DRUGS AID ALCOHOL TREATMENT
Largely from a primary care perspective, this US review examines a half century of evidence for
whether drugs aid recovery from dependence on alcohol and which work best. Top candidates are
naltrexone (newly licensed for this role in the UK), topiramate, and acamprosate.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Miller_PM_5.txt
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT SAFEGUARD PUB/CLUBGOERS
In pubs and clubs, and especially for young patrons, out-of-control intoxication is sometimes the
aim, posing a challenge for interventions aimed at restraint. How to reduce use and harm has been
investigated in the 17 studies analysed in this review; involve the community and stiffen good
intentions with enforcement is the message.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Bolier_L_1.txt
*new* SCOTTISH HEALTH SERVICE CAUTIOUS ABOUT COMPUTER-BASED ALCOHOL ADVICE AND THERAPY
Worth trying, but unproven for the UK and for general populations and in need of further evaluation,
were the messages of this review for the health service in Scotland of computer-based alcohol
interventions as possible ways to extend treatment and the national brief intervention programme.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=McAuley_A_4.cab
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