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The International Society for the Study of Drug Policy

The International Society for the Study of Drug Policy

Bibliography: Interventions – Treatment

Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery 2017 – 2025

Ireland’s “Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery” strategy sets out the Government’s response to addressing the harm caused by substance misuse in our society over the next eight years. It identifies a set of key actions to be delivered between 2017 and 2020, and provides an opportunity for the development of further actions from 2021 to 2024 to address needs that may emerge later on in the lifetime of the strategy (DoH, Ireland)

A Performance Measurement Framework for Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (PDF)

The development of a Performance Measurement Framework for DATFs follows the review undertaken by the Department of Health in 20121 and adopts a similar logic to the Healthy Ireland strategy. Rather than looking at interventions in terms of inputs and outputs, the overriding concern is with the net effect of public policies at the population level. This is the only way of conceptualising effectiveness in an evidence-based and sustainable manner (Drugs and Alcohol Ireland)

The Right Turn Veteran-Specific Recovery Service Evaluation (PDF)

Each year roughly 17,000 people leave the UK Armed Forces and the vast majority make a successful transition into civilian society. A small but increasing number of ex-forces personnel however experience poor physical and mental health, substance misuse and/or come into contact with the criminal justice sector. Poor transition is estimated to have cost the UK £98 million in 2015 alone (Sheffield Hallam University)

Australian methamphetamine user outcomes (PDF)

This paper examines the demographics of methamphetamine users and their employment, education and health outcomes using data from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey, the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia program, the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services data collection and the National Prisoner Health Data Collection (Australian Institute of Criminology)

Novel Psychoactive Substances synthetic cannabinoids in prison and community including best practice treatment approaches

The use of new psychoactive substances [NPS] in prisons has been recognised as an increasing problem for several years. Successive Chief Inspectors of Prisons and the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman have drawn attention to the impact on prisons, prison staff and prisoners themselves from the use of NPS (SMMGP)

Implementation of drug-, alcohol- and tobacco-related brief interventions in the European Union Member States, Norway and Turkey

This report provides an overview of the various types of brief interventions (BIs) currently used in European countries in the field of substance use, particularly illicit drugs. Targeted at policymakers and practitioners alike, it covers more than 30 BIs carried out in the EU and serves as a starting point for preparing concrete proposals to improve the evidence base on this topic (EMCDDA)

Criminal Justice Project – Impact of targeted drug testing on drug using offenders coming into treatment in Liverpool (PDF)

To explore the impact of targeted testing on drug using offenders coming into treatment in Liverpool, this report uses two datasets: drug testing data provided by Merseyside Police; and the criminal justice dataset entered onto the Criminal Justice Intervention Team (CJIT) Data Entry Tool (DET) by Liverpool Addaction (Public Health Institute)

Criminal Justice Project – Impact of targeted drug testing on drug using offenders coming into treatment in Liverpool Criminal Justice Project – Impact of targeted drug testing on drug using offenders coming into treatment in Liverpool

The report compares data between May 2014 and April 2015 (2014-15) and between May 2015 and April 2016 (Public Health Institute)

Thematic analysis of training for prison staff on new psychoactive substances (PDF)

The training programme was primarily targeted at prison-based staff although it benefitted significantly from the attendance and contribution of colleagues from community-based treatment services (Public Health England)

DrugScope library archive

Wellcome Institute

Review of Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services for Adult Offenders in Prison and in the Community (PDF)

The review explores current provision and provides recommendations based on the evidence collected. It sets out a model of effective practice for the treatment of adult offenders which facilitates a continuum of care from prison to the community (Irish Prison Service)

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