Recent bulletins from the 
drug and alcohol bank:
Risky-drinking inpatients respond best to multi-session brief interventions
Review of studies of interventions for heavy drinkers identified among general hospital inpatients concluded that multi-session brief interventions could reduce drinking. “Could” is an important qualifier: yet to be pinned down is why though sometimes they work, brief interventions often fail to produce significant effects.
Individualising treatment: an obviously ‘good thing’?
Individualising care might seem an obvious and basic prerequisite for any treatment service, but in practice services have often striven for the opposite.
Workplace education improved knowledge without affecting drinking
Two workplace lectures in Sweden delivered significant improvements in employees’ knowledge of alcohol-related risks but this increased awareness did not translate into reduced drinking.
Should we start prevention in the cradle?
Early-years parenting support and preschool education are major planks in British drug strategies. Whatever their other benefits, the evidence that such programmes can affect later substance use is thin, but gets more solid as we move up the age range to the first years of primary schooling.
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