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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.

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OPIATE-BLOCKING IMPLANTS REDUCE POST-DETOXIFICATION RELAPSE
In the first randomised trial, implants which block opiate-type drugs for months helped heroin 
addicts in Norway avoid relapse after detoxification.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Kunoe_N_1.txt

UNIQUE HEAD-TO-HEAD TRIAL OF OPIATE BLOCKER VERSUS SUBSTITUTE DRUG
Detoxified Malaysian heroin addicts were randomly allocated to a substitute drug, an oral 
opiate-blocking medication, or just to counselling. The results led to the introduction of methadone 
maintenance in Malaysia.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Schottenfeld_RS_2.txt

FOIL PACKS EXTEND HARM REDUCTION REACH OF NEEDLE EXCHANGES
British needle exchanges which piloted distribution of foil packs for smoking heroin found they were 
widely used and may have increased attendance and reduced the number of injections, lending weight 
to current attempts to legalise such provision.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Pizzey_R_2.txt

LEADING SCHOOL AND FAMILY PREVENTION PROGRAMMES BENEFIT HIGH RISK YOUNGSTERS MOST
Researchers found that the most widely recommended US school and family prevention programmes 
retarded growth in substance use, especially among youngsters who had already used by their early 
teens.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Spoth_R_17.txt

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