Recent bulletins from the Findings drug and alcohol bank:
Glass half full for residential/inpatient treatment of drinking problems in England
For the small cohort of people with severe and chronic drinking problems, this study found that residential and inpatient treatments were effective over half the time based on the important public health indicator of not just completing treatment successfully, but also not returning to treatment within six months. Ground-breaking and important as this is, the findings refer only to people who accessed treatment. What does this mean for those whose vulnerabilities make them eligible for intensive support but go hand-in-hand with significant barriers to treatment?
Can the disappointing roll-out of brief alcohol interventions be cost-effectively turned around?
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