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ALCOHOL FINDINGS project. This free service alerts subscribers to recent evaluation studies with
important practice implications. Though tailored for the UK, this selection will be of
international interest.
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PATCHY PERFORMANCE OF UK OFFENDER TREATMENT INITIATIVES
In 2007 a clutch of official reports shed light on criminal justice initiatives
under the Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) umbrella. Verdicts ranged from
pointless and botched through worthwhile but limited to distinctly promising ...
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=bulletins/Bull_7_1_08.htm#patch
BOTCHED DTTO RESPONSE TO CRACK USING OFFENDERS
A report on how in 2003 and 2004 three English treatment and testing teams
handled their crack using caseloads revealed poor management, strained
inter-agency relations and either unknown or poor outcomes ...
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=bulletins/Bull_7_1_08.htm#DTTO
TREATMENT ON BAIL MAKES LITTLE DISCERNIBLE DIFFERENCE
In 2004-5 three areas in England piloted a court order which made assessment and
if indicated treatment a condition of non-custodial bail. It prompted some
defendants to enter treatment but impacts on retention, offending and
imprisonment could not be shown ...
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=bulletins/Bull_7_1_08.htm#bail
TESTING ON ARREST SCATTER GUN NETS SOME EXTRA TREATMENT ENTRANTS
Starting in April 2006, drug testing on arrest and mandatory assessment for
heroin or cocaine users netted more drug users but at the cost of net-widening
to low-level offenders and perhaps just 1% of all those tested stayed in
treatment for 12 weeks ...
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=bulletins/Bull_7_1_08.htm#Tough_Choices
TESTING CHILDREN POINTLESS BUT ARREST REFERRAL OFFERS EARLY INTERVENTION
OPPORTUNITIES
In 2007 a report evaluated new criminal justice initiatives for under 18s in
England: drug testing, arrest referral, and drug treatment and testing orders.
Only the voluntary referral scheme which in practice did not focus on drugs was
recommended for wider roll out ...
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=bulletins/Bull_7_1_08.him#Andre
'MOST PROMISING' ALCOHOL PREVENTION PROGRAMME TRIED WITH POOR BLACK US FAMILIES
The Strengthening Families Program assessed by UK analysts as the most promising
intervention over the longer-term for the primary prevention of alcohol misuse
has gained further support from a US trial among poor black families ...
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=bulletins/Bull_7_1_08.him#SAAF
SELF-FINANCING RESIDENT-RUN HOUSES MAINTAIN RECOVERY AFTER TREATMENT
A US recovery model yet to be tried in Europe has proved its effectiveness in a
rare randomised trial of a mutual aid intervention. The self-financing structure
may help overcome restrictions on the supply and duration of residential
rehabilitation in the UK ...
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=bulletins/Bull_7_1_08.htm#Oxford
CONCERN OVER ABSTINENCE OUTCOMES IN SCOTLAND'S TREATMENT SERVICES
A study of drug (mainly heroin) users starting treatment in Scotland in 2001
revealed what the researchers believed were worryingly low rates of abstinence
nearly three years later, but the findings have been widely misinterpreted ...
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=bulletins/Bull_7_1_08.htm#DORIS
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