Recent research from the drug and alcohol Bank:
Alcohol Interventions in the British Criminal Justice System
- Unmet need for alcohol services in English prisons
Prison inspections and surveys of prisoners and staff in England reveal what HM Inspectorate of Prisons called a depressing picture of very limited services for problem drinking inmates, leaving them with poor prospects on release. - Scottish prisons leave many problem drinkers without help
What does the Scottish Prison Service need to do to adequately address alcohol problems among inmates? Key finding was that many prisoners who could benefit from interventions were being missed. - Not enough money for problem drinking offenders in the community Complements the prison report above with an investigation of what is being done in Scotland to meet the needs of problem drinking offenders by services outside prison, and assesses whether local arrangements measure up. Under-funding emerges as a key issue.
Treatment and prevention bulletins
- Male and female depressed drinkers react best to different therapies Australian study provides the first evidence that integrated treatment may be superior for depressed heavy drinkers, and raises the intriguing possibility that men react best to alcohol-focused therapy, women to a depression focus.
- Problem drinking curbed by EU-funded drug education curriculum The largest European drug education trial ever conducted tested whether US-style social influence programmes would prove effective in Europe. Among the successes were the reductions in problem drinking documented in this report, but substance use as such could not be shown to have been reduced.
Brief interventions and health outcomes research
Free research summaries are available from the US-based Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence page. Individual links are listed and a newsletter summarising research findings on Dual Diagnosis, GP barriers to brief interventions, older drinkers and Naltrexone.
Further research can be found in the Findings bank, the AERC library, our research tag and a links page on the Alcohol Learning Centre.
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Posted by: deepa | Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 01:39 PM