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 Effectiveness Bank alert. WHO guidelines on identifying and treating problem drinkers in prison
 


WHO guidelines on identifying and treating problem drinkers in prison
They are there in abundance, but can problem drinkers effectively be treated in prison? The cover of these World Health Organization guidelines poses the key dilemma. Their subtitle (“An opportunity for intervention”) seems belied by the forbidding, barbed wire-topped concrete wall, yet the walls create the ‘dry space’ in which intervention seems possible. We particularly examine the evidence for brief interventions, candidates for forming the bedrock of prison alcohol programmes.

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The alcohol and drug treatment matrices: “Documents you should read if you read nothing else” – UK Substance Misuse Skills Consortium
Alcohol matrix for alcohol brief interventions and treatment
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