Welcome to Effectiveness Bank alerts from Drug and Alcohol Findings announcing site updates and
evaluation research with important practice implications. Issue 14 of the Drug and Alcohol Findings
magazine first published in 2006 is now being made available as free downloadable PDFs (Adobe
Acrobat files). Below are the articles; more content from the issue to follow.
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MOTIVATIONAL ARM TWISTING: CONTRADICTION IN TERMS?
Part 4 of the Manners Matter series asks whether motivational interviewing can overcome the hostile
prison environment and the distrust of youngsters, drink drivers and other offenders pressured into
counselling by the criminal justice system.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Ashton_M_34.pdf
METHADONE MAINTENANCE: THE ORIGINAL
In the mid-60s even its originators doubted whether methadone maintenance could work when everything
else had failed, gnawing their nails as they waited for patients to return from the temptations
outside the ward. What they saw instead was a miraculous transformation.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Ashton_M_26.pdf
BOOMERANG ADS
Not ads for boomerangs, but ads which risk a boomerang effect - specifically, the biggest ever
attempt to use the media to turn US youth away from drugs. Could this official US campaign actually
have done the reverse?
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Ashton_M_1.pdf
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