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| Hot topics March/April 2015 | ||
| A selection of important issues or interventions which
sometimes generate heated debate over the facts or their interpretation.
It starts where substance use problems start – way before using these
substances is on the agenda, so preventive interventions too may best be
generic rather than drug-specific. At the other end are controlling the
alcohol-related disorder which troubles many in Britain, and two poles of
treatment: cannabis problems, often seen as suited to brief interventions,
and one of the most intensive and expensive options – residential
rehabilitation. To see all four hot topics click the button below or scroll down and click titles for individual topics. | ||
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| It’s magic: prevent substance use problems without mentioning drugs | ||
| Documents the increasingly accepted realisation that youth programmes focusing on drugs are not necessarily the best way to prevent problem use. Addressing underlying vulnerabilities and structural influences has growing research support. | ||
| Also see hot topic on drug education. | ||
Controlling alcohol-related nuisance and disorder | ||
| Within substance use policy there can hardly be a hotter issue than alcohol-related violence and disorder, and how governments can curb it without becoming vulnerable to the accusation of being a nanny-state killjoy. | ||
Cannabis is worth bothering with | ||
| From being seen as hardly worth bothering with, cannabis use is now the main problem for nearly half of all first-time UK drug treatment patients. How well do patients do, and are brief interventions a suitable response? | ||
Residential rehabilitation: the high road to recovery? | ||
| Though close to the heart of the UK government’s abstinence-based recovery ambitions, their own research has cast doubt on whether residential rehabilitation is a good deal for the public purse. We look at the evidence for residential rehabilitation, and whether despite the rhetoric, these services are under threat. | ||
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