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
Cognitive-behavioural treatment (CBT) to reduce stimulant use Treatment amphetamines, cocaine Unknown effectiveness
Employer-led interventions to reduce use and adverse effects Social reintegration not-drug specific Unknown effectiveness
Family and individual-based interventions to prevent multiple risk behaviours relating to alcohol, tobacco and drug use Prevention alcohol, cannabis, tobacco families Unknown effectiveness
School-based brief interventions to reduce substance use and delinquent-type behaviours Prevention alcohol, cannabis school Unknown effectiveness
Neurostimulation techniques in the treatment of cocaine dependence Treatment cocaine Unknown effectiveness
Assertive community treatment (ACT) for substance use disorders 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
Psychotherapy to improve mental and treatment outcomes in patients with comorbid bipolar and substance use disorders Treatment not-drug specific dual-diagnosis patients Unknown effectiveness
Brief interventions in patients with comorbid substance use Treatment co-morbidity Unknown effectiveness
Substitution treatment for adolescent opioid users Treatment opioids young people Unknown effectiveness
Pub-watching schemes to reduce alcohol-related crime against property Prevention alcohol law enforcement, partygoers/nightlife Unknown effectiveness
Opioid substitution treatment (OST) to prevent HIV and HCV in prison Harm reduction opioids prison Unknown effectiveness
Therapeutic communities to improve treatment outcomes Treatment not-drug specific Unknown effectiveness
Permanent supportive housing (specifically Housing First) to reduce harms Harm reduction, Social reintegration not-drug specific communities Unknown effectiveness
Psycho-social treatment (including contingency management) to improve crack-cocaine users housing conditions Social reintegration cocaine Unknown effectiveness
Psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol use among people who use illicit drugs Treatment alcohol Unknown effectiveness
Therapeutic workplace (TW) to improve employment outcomes Social reintegration not-drug specific Unknown effectiveness

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