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A new bulletin has collated the latest additions to the Effectiveness Bank. To view the whole bulletin click the following link: http://findings.org.uk/docs/bulletins/Bull_28_03_12.php or click the links below to view an entry in the bulletin. If clicking does not work, paste the link in to your web browser address box, being sure to enter the whole address. ************************************** *new* MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING HELPS HEAVY DRINKING US STUDENTS CUT DOWN Studies published in the mid-2000s confirm that counselling based on motivational interviewing helps heavy drinking US college students control their drinking and reduce related problems. http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Branscum_P_1.cab *new* INFORM AND EXHORT NOT ENOUGH TO IMPROVE HOSPITAL SCREENING RATE Hospital nurses in Sydney in Australia were trained to implement a new screening and intervention policy aiming to upgrade the identification of hazardous drinkers and other substance users among medical and surgical inpatients. Disappointing results highlight the need to do more than inform and exhort if practice is to change. http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Tran_DT_1.cab HOW THERAPISTS CAN ENGAGE PARENTS IN FAMILY THERAPY How to engage parents more deeply in becoming a positive influence over their seriously delinquent drug abusing teenagers through family therapy integrated in to a US juvenile drug court. Some of the therapist tactics expected to work did deepen engagement, others did not. http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Foster_SL_1.txt MONTH-LONG OPIATE-BLOCKING INJECTIONS HELP RUSSIAN ADDICTS STAY OFF HEROIN Injecting detoxified opiate addicts in Russia with long-acting naltrexone which blocks opiates for a month meant more were able to stay off the drugs, findings which helped persuade US authorities to approve it for this role. Others argue this was precipitate given the lack of evidence on overdose protection. http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Krupitsky_EM_7.txt ************************************** Effectiveness Bank alerts are provided by Drug and Alcohol Findings (http://findings.org.uk) to alert you to site updates and recent UK-relevant evaluation studies and reviews of drug/alcohol interventions. Findings is managed by DrugScope, Alcohol Concern and the National Addiction Centre. The Effectiveness Bank is supported by Alcohol Research UK. You have received this message via another mailing list. To receive these messages directly sign up at: http://findings.org.uk/index.php#signUp