Mainly from the drug and alcohol Findings database:
Brief alcohol advice works with psychiatric patients: Will brief alcohol advice work with depressed and/or distressed psychiatric patients at risk from their drinking? From Sweden, an affirmative answer from the first study among psychiatric outpatients to test brief alcohol advice against screening alone. Use of a telephone-based intervention was another innovation.
Probation resources too stretched to adequately tackle huge drink problem: Probation services in England and Wales are creatively grappling with a huge and criminogenic offender drink problem, but their efforts are undermined by lack of evidence about what works and by under-resourcing linked to a dispute over whether health or probation should bear the core funding burden.
Matching alcohol treatments to the patient It was the great hope for alcohol treatment: even if overall one type of therapy was as good as another, surely this was just because certain therapies worked best with certain patients. Getting the match right was seen as a key way to advance effectiveness. Despite major setbacks, it remains a fascinating and fertile research topic. See what you make of it by running the hot topic search.
Alcohol licensing, price and taxation: Market levers not available to curb the illicit drugs market promise to make the greatest difference to alcohol-related harm across the population. The prize - an improvement in public health among the largest achievable by any feasible means - is great, but so too are the obstacles. Run the hot topic search to see what we may be missing if we fail to grasp these opportunities. (Current price and taxation review details here
Fuelling the problem? The sale of alcohol at petrol stations in Wales: An Alcohol Concern survey of petrol stations in eight counties in Wales in May 2010 found that 33 per sold alcohol, a figure that corresponds to previous research undertaken in England and Wales. The survey also highlighted that training for staff on selling alcohol was not consistent. Follow the above link for Alcohol Concern's 5 policy recommendations.
