Welcome to Effectiveness Bank alerts from Drug and Alcohol Findings, alerting you to site updates
and new evaluation research. This bulletin collects together recently analysed studies and reviews.
Though tailored for the UK, it will be of international interest.
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HEROIN PRESCRIBING RESCUES PREVIOUSLY TREATMENT-RESISTANT HEROIN ADDICTS
Controversial and expensive it might be, but in the first British randomised trial, a
continental-style heroin prescribing programme featuring on-site supervised consumption suppressed
illegal heroin use much more effectively than oral methadone.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Strang_J_21.txt
PROBATION RESOURCES TOO STRETCHED TO ADEQUATELY TACKLE HUGE DRINK PROBLEM
Probation services in England and Wales are creatively grappling with a huge and criminogenic
offender drink problem, but their efforts are undermined by lack of evidence about what works and by
under-resourcing linked to a dispute over whether health or probation should bear the core funding
burden.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=McSweeney_T_8.txt
BRIEF ALCOHOL ADVICE WORKS WITH PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
Will brief alcohol advice work with depressed and/or distressed psychiatric patients at risk from
their drinking? From Sweden, an affirmative answer from the first study among psychiatric
outpatients to test brief alcohol advice against screening alone. Use of a telephone-based
intervention was another innovation.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Eberhard_S_1.txt
MASS NEEDLE EXCHANGE HELPED REVERSE HIV EPIDEMIC IN NEW YORK
From New York, a success story of the reversal of a serious epidemic of HIV among injectors, with
mass needle exchange in the starring role. It adds weight to studies which collectively indicate
that multi-strand approaches featuring high-coverage syringe provision can curb the spread of HIV.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Des_Jarlais_DC_16.txt
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