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‘DANGEROUS DATA’ PART 3: THE GLOVES COME OFF

Third weekly instalment of the series on controlled drinking as a treatment goal. Controversy moves to the USA, where the 1976 Rand report’s finding that post-treatment remission usually...

ISSUP Chile te invita a participar de un webinar presentando los resultados del estudio sobre prevención, tratamiento e inclusión social, en el marco de la pandemia de Covid-19 en Chile.

HOW CAN YOU PRIORITISE THE CHILD WHEN YOUR PATIENT IS THE PARENT?

Guidance insists child welfare is paramount, even if your client is not the child, but their parent. The temptation is to sideline this uncomfortable but important work...

Following the launch of the UNODC-WHO International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders (2016) (“the Standards”), there was a need for new globally applicable tools to ensure a qualified and effective response to drug use...

Since the adoption of the first European Drug Strategy 2000–2004, the EU clearly defines drug-related problems as primarily being a Public Health issue. This approach was also endorsed recently by the Community of Latin American and...

‘DANGEROUS DATA’ PART 2: A GENTLEMANLY START

Second weekly instalment of the series on controlled drinking as a treatment goal traces the start of the controversy to early 1960s London, where psychiatrist D.L. Davies opened the first...

This report shares the findings from Adfam's State of the Sector Family Support Survey which in 2019 asked 117 practitioners and managers working in family support services in England about current trends, developments, strengths and...

MANAGING TO EXTRACT THERAPY FROM PUNISHMENT

Key studies on the role of management in the treatment of problem drinking in criminal justice settings and/or to safeguard the community. A rare review specific to this context argues that “the...

On February 23rd, ISSUP Global presented their Webinar on the topic of quality in substance use disorder treatment. This event tied in with the launch of the new 'Quality in Treatment' Network.

‘DANGEROUS DATA’ PART 1: WHY THE HEAT?

Each Monday over the next eight weeks we divide up the hot topic released last week on controlled drinking as a treatment goal and serve it to you in bite-size chunks. The series starts with part 1,...

 

This webinar describes how telephone, mHealth (text-messaging and apps), and computer-based interventions are used in the treatment of methamphetamine use. Key elements of the webinar include

• the research supporting each modality
• sug...

THE TRICKIER THE SITUATION, THE MORE THE WORKER MATTERS

Cell B5’s research-derived understandings of therapeutic work in a criminal justice or family protection context funnelled into the final section, tempting the formulation of a...

‘DANGEROUS DATA’: DRINKING AFTER DEPENDENCE

First cracked in 1960s London, the orthodoxy that abstinence is the only acceptable and feasible treatment goal for ‘alcoholics’ seemed shattered in 1973 by evidence that even physically...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures have made in-person mutual help groups inaccessible to many individuals struggling with substance use disorders (SUDs). In this paper, we share our experience training volunteers to facilitate SMART Recovery groups and SMARTline

WHAT IF THE THERAPIST WORKS FOR THE JAILER?

The title poses the dilemma for alcohol treatment staff (seen as) working for authorities controlling or punishing the ‘client’ or deciding on removing their children. Explores whether in these...