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Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Managing Coerced Alcohol Treatment

Book

14 June 2017

Key studies on the role of management in the treatment of problem drinking in criminal justice settings and/or to safeguard the community. Just as for practitioners, for managers the challenge is to extract therapeutic benefit out of a...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What If the Therapist ... Is Also the Jailer?

Book

31 May 2017

A cell in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. In an extreme form, the title poses the dilemma for alcohol treatment staff who may also be (seen as) working for authorities whose main role is to control or punish the ‘client’ or who may be...

Minimum Alcohol Price to Be Rolled out across the UK?

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A minimum price of 50p per unit of alcohol was approved by Members of Scottish Parliament (MSPs) in 2012. The decision faced numerous legal challenges from the drinks industry before Scottish courts ruled in its favour in October 2016. This...

Effectiveness Bank Analysis: Mandatory Assessment for Arrestees Does Not Cut Crime

Scientific article

27 March 2017

Further evidence from England that the ‘Tough Choices’ schemes which force people arrested for certain offences to be tested for heroin or cocaine use and if positive to be assessed for treatment do not pay back in terms of treatment...

Reducing Opioid-Related Deaths in the UK

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1 December 2016

Robust messages for the government from the UK’s official drug policy advisers: Ageing profile of multiply-ill heroin users will continue to press up drug-related deaths. To counteract this pressure government must maintain investment in...