Best practice portal – evidence database

This database gives you access to the latest evidence on drug-related interventions. The information is based on systematic searches is updated regularly. To get started use the search boxes below. Click here for more information about the Evidence database (including methods).

List of Evidence Summaries
Title Area Substance Target group(s) or setting(s) Evidence rating
Distribution of safer crack-use-paraphernalia to reduce crack-related harms Harm reduction cocaine Unknown effectiveness
Positive youth development (PYD) interventions to reduce substance use Prevention not-drug specific communities, young people Unknown effectiveness
Drug court programmes to improve employment outcomes Social reintegration not-drug specific prison Unknown effectiveness
Family- or individual-level multiple risk behaviour interventions to prevent cannabis use Prevention cannabis young people Unknown effectiveness
Universal school-based interventions to prevent multiple risk behaviours relating to alcohol, tobacco and drug use Prevention alcohol, cannabis, tobacco school Unknown effectiveness
Standalone life skill-based interventions to reduce hard drug use Prevention opioids school Unknown effectiveness
Pharmacological management of opium withdrawal Treatment opioids Unknown effectiveness
Integrated care of infectious diseases and substance use disorders to improve infectious disease treatment outcomes Treatment alcohol, co-morbidity, not-drug specific, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, new psychoactive substances (NPS), opioids, prescription medicines, tobacco communities, dual-diagnosis patients, emergency department, ethnic minority, families, law enforcement, pregnant women, PWID – people who inject drugs, school, women, prison, young people, partygoers/nightlife Unknown effectiveness
Police-based diversion measures to prevent drug use Harm reduction not-drug specific law enforcement Unknown effectiveness
Opioid withdrawal with antagonists under minimal sedation to retain patients and reduce relapses Treatment opioids Unknown effectiveness
Drug consumption rooms (DCRs) to reduce harms for homeless and vulnerably housed persons Harm reduction amphetamines, opioids PWID – people who inject drugs Unknown effectiveness
Workplace-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of problematic substance use Prevention Unknown effectiveness
Primary care behavioural interventions to prevent or reduce substance use in children and adolescents Prevention not-drug specific communities, young people Unknown effectiveness
Psycho-social treatment (including contingency management) to improve crack-cocaine users employment conditions Social reintegration cocaine Unknown effectiveness
Behavioural activation (BA) interventions to reduce substance use and depressive symptoms Treatment co-morbidity dual-diagnosis patients Unknown effectiveness
Targeted school-level interventions to prevent multiple risk behaviours relating to alcohol, tobacco and drug use Prevention alcohol, cannabis, tobacco school Unknown effectiveness

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