Bibliography: Interventions – Treatment

The past five years has seen an unprecedented increase in the number of these psychoactive drugs (BMJ)

The program, launched in 2011 as the first of its kind in the country, allows law enforcement officers to direct people charged with low-level drug or sex work offenses into community-based services instead of prosecution and jail (Open Society Foundations)

When 80 per cent of your clients have a dual diagnosis, asking whether the service needs a dual diagnosis worker is getting things the wrong way around (Advances in Dual Diagnosis)

Cohort studies of dependent users in treatment, and people who inject drugs (NDARC)

Politicians may not like it, but evidence shows that giving heroin to some users reduces harm, argues Martin T Schechter (BMJ)

Lessons from a roundtable of commissioners (DrugScope)

This briefing describes several aims (DrugScope)

Prohibition had negative outcomes for the millions of individuals who find it worthwhile to use psychedelics in various cultural settings outside of those in the clinic (Lancet)

This is the second in a series of briefing papers by DrugScope on behalf of the Recovery Partnership which examine some of the broader issues around recovery from substance misuse problems. The briefing has a regional focus on South East England (DrugScope)

Public Health England (PHE) has announced the successful applicants for £10 million of capital funding for services that are helping people in England with drug or alcohol problems to recover from their addiction. Over 50 projects across England, in partnership with local authorities, will receive grants from PHE

Technical competencies guide to working with first nations clients (CCSA)

This paper presents a summary of analysis that considered the costs and savings to public services that might be generated from those receiving treatment for opiate dependence (Department for Work and Pensions, UK)

This bulletin summarises information collected in the fifth census of statutory and non-statutory drug and alcohol treatment services in Northern Ireland to establish the number of persons in treatment for drug and/or alcohol misuse (Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety)

The drug market period in which injecting initiation occurred influenced the first drug injected and influenced some aspects of subsequent drug use. In the context of highly dynamic drug markets in which polydrug use is common there is a need for broad harm reduction and drug treatment services which are flexible and responsive to changing patterns of drug use (Drug Policy)

Presents results from the NDTMS on young people in contact with drug and alcohol treatment agencies and general practitioners (Public Health England)

New data on young people’s substance misuse treatment shows that specialist services in England continue to work well (Public Health England)

(Centre for Public Health)