Drug Use And Treatment

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Drug Use Update 21 November 2008

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Official policy & guidance Reports, surveys & statistics Conferences and service initiatives New online resources Recent research

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Department of Health Commissioning IAPT fro the whole community: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publicatio ns/DH_090011 EMCDDA Annual report 2008: the state of the drugs problem in Europe Selected issue No 3, 2008 Drugs and vulnerable groups of young people Home Office Drug misuse declared: findings from the 2007/2008 British Crime Survey http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-events/latestnews/drug-misuse-declared Archives of Internal Medicine 168 [18] October 2008 http://archinte.ama-assn.org/ Validation of a Hepatitis C Screening Tool in Primary Care Cochrane Collaboration Issue 4 2008 http://www.cochrane.org/ Efficacy of Psychostimulant Drugs for Cocaine Dependence Methadone at tapered doses for the management of opioid withdrawal Psychosocial and pharmacological treatments versus pharmacological treatments for opioid detoxification Psychosocial combined with agonist maintenance treatments versus agonist maintenance treatments alone for treatment of opioid dependence Research on Social Work Practice 18 [6] November 2008 http://rsw.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/18/6/616 Anger control group counselling for women recovering from alcohol or drug addiction Sure Screen Diagnostics Ltd http://www.surescreen.com/downloads.php

Best Practice Technical Bulletin Issue 11: Mood food and addiction (1)