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January 2011

January 24, 2011: "WHAT ARE YOUR SUCCESS RATES?"
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THE BROADWAY INVENTORY HAS ANSWERS Treatment organisations are often asked about their success rates – but what is success? Peter Smith and Dr Jennifer Parker trialled a tool which measures the development of characteristics playing a significant role in the...

January 20, 2011: "SUCCESSFULLY LEAVING TREATMENT?"
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Sending patients to providers of full recovery is seen as a last resort by most commissioners. What does this mean in personal cost? Learn about five patients admitted recently into one rehab, moving from methadone services which had been paid...

January 19, 2011: CAMERON’S DRUG STRATEGY IS NOBBLED AT STARTING GATE
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With the Coalition’s first Drug Strategy – Reducing demand, restricting supply, building recovery: supporting people to live a drug-free life – not even a month old, the Department of Health/National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse rushed to incapacitate prime minister...

January 8, 2011: STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES FOR SUBSTANCE-USE DISORDER PATIENTS
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As the government searches for models of incentivising specific outcomes in addiction treatment. Deirdre Boyd picks the brains of Keith Humphreys and Tom McLellan on research to inform policy, as well as advice on “payment by results”. Print-friendly version: Download...

January 7, 2011: HOW ADDICTED ARE WE? THE UK'S DATA DEFICIT
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by Kathy Gyngell Chair of the Centre for Policy Studies' Prisons and Addictions think-tank The US is well ahead of us in the game of social data collection. A first-of-its-kind study by the US Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and...

January 7, 2011: LOOK TO THE FUTURE: DRUG STRATEGY AND RELATED CONSULTATION PAPERS
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The coalition government's first drug strategy – Reducing demand, restricting supply, building recovery: supporting people to live a drug-free life – sets out its overarching vision and is thus only 26 pages, the intention being that the fine details are...