A year on, and the National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS) has produced its first annual report. Britain apparently now has unambiguous evidence treatment works. What type of treatment works, who is it best for and can it survive in…
Tag Archive for drug services
Druglink article 1998 – Asking around: changing a service from the inside – on the inside by Mary Anne McFarlane and Anne Thomson
Everybody seems to be using them, from politicians to pet food manufacturers. But how can focus groups help a drug agency? Step forward, qualitative research and ground-floor user consultation Asking around: changing a service from the inside – on the…
Druglink article 1998 – Asking around: the theory and practice of user consultation by Megan Jones, Sara Jones and Milo Connolly
User involvement, feedback, client satisfaction – call it what you will, but a couple of years ago ‘user consultation’ was meant to be the next big thing. But though it trips off people’s tongues, in reality very little has been…
Druglink article 1998 – Looking for clues – does the strategy stand up to scrutiny? by Roger Paxton
With Tackling Drugs Together up for renewal, it’s about time to look at the evidence for the original’s aims and objectives. For, without evidence, it is unlikely that any policy – let alone a strategy – will get off the…
Druglink article 1997 – Feeling our way in the dark: matching client need to service function by Bryan Masterson and Anna Hindhaugh
Multi-Disciplinary Community Teams (MDCTs) have been chosen as a model for delivering services to people with drug and alcohol problems. A snapshot survey focusing on the procedures under which clients are allocated to workers within two MDCTs found that the…
Druglink article 1997 – A new kind of user – a new kind of service? by Margaret Woolgrove and Jan Keene
This paper presents the results of an in-depth qualitative study of senior managers and practitioners in social services, health, youth work and the criminal justice service. The respondents high-lighted concerns about drug users who they felt were not in contact…
Druglink article 1997 – Risking our sanity by Ira Unell
Mentally ill drug users are among the worst-serviced groups in the community, with both mental health and drug services often refusing to acknowledge their existence. This creates a huge scope for misdiagnosis. Unless services can recognise and respond appropriately to…
Druglink article 1997 – Time for total treatment: where drugs and alcohol meet by Tom Waller
As the pages of Druglink testify, substitute prescribing has dominated the British response to drug misuse for decades. But all that could change soon with the publication of the Orange Book of clinical guidelines.This could be the best opportunity in years…
Druglink article 1997 – Workers with attitude by Colin Cripps
No one’s getting younger these days except it seems, drug users. But how can we hope to reach them in the classroom, in the agency and on the street? And how can we do that without being patronising or power-hungry?…
Druglink article 1997 – Get it while you can: the walking talking calling card by Ray Jenkins
One of Britain’s best known arrest referral schemes gives Druglink readers the low-down on getting arrestees into treatment and off the drug-crime roundabout. Get it while you can: the walking talking calling card (PDF)