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You have received this message via another mailing list. To receive these messages directly sign up at: http://findings.org.uk/index.php#signUp Welcome to Effectiveness Bank alerts, a service provided by Drug and Alcohol Findings to alert you to recent evaluation studies and reviews with important practice implications. Though tailored for the UK, this selection will be of international interest. This message alerts you to our latest bulletin featuring new reviews and meta-analyses. To view the entries click on a link or paste in to your web browser's address box, being sure to enter the whole address. This link http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=bulletins/Bull_05_08_09.php takes you to the bulletin as a whole. The links below take you to your chosen entry. ************************************** CONFIRMATION THAT TAX RISES ARE KEY ALCOHOL HARM REDUCTION MEASURE Comprehensive calculations from Australia offer clues to what would make the biggest dent in alcohol-related harm at the lowest cost; top of the list were alcohol tax rises, advertising bans, licensing controls, and random breath testing. http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Doran_CM_5.txt PRACTICAL RESEARCH-BASED HANDBOOK FOR PEER-BASED RECOVERY IN THE UK This free monograph is likely to become the handbook for the growing peer-based recovery movement in the UK. For administrators, the approaches it reviews offer a way to reconcile decreasing per-patient resources with a policy agenda now focused on reintegration and recovery. http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=White_WL_19.txt COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TO EXPECT TOO MUCH TOO SOON FROM HOMELESS ADDICTS Comprehensive and thoughtful review of the UK-relevant literature warns that services which impose rigid and unrealistic expectations of abstinence or independent living on homeless addicts would deny treatment and housing to vulnerable adults with complex needs. http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Pleace_N_1.txt SURPRISINGLY SMALL ADVANTAGE FOR COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL THERAPIES Cognitive-behavioural therapies are among the most widespread and influential approaches to substance use, yet this analysis found they conferred a surprisingly small advantage over other therapies. http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Magill_M_2.txt ************************************** Further information from [log in to unmask] or by replying to this e-mail. Drug and Alcohol Findings is managed by DrugScope, Alcohol Concern and the National Addiction Centre, the two leading UK drug and alcohol information charities and the UK's leading clinical/research centre. The Effectiveness Bank project is supported by the J. Paul Getty Jr. Charitable Trust (http://www.jpgettytrust.org.uk) and the Pilgrim Trust (http://www.thepilgrimtrust.org.uk).