All Resources for 'Education & Training'

Whole Family Recovery

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Recovery Support
Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Partner Organisation

This document provides an overview of themes that emerged from the Adfam’s Whole Family Recovery and Alcohol Focus Groups and interviews. This research was conducted to scope the impacts of the recovery of someone with an alcohol problem on...

Validity and Reliability of the Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) in University Students

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Scientific article
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Addiction
Populations
Women
Public Health

The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), has been used successfully in many countries, but there are few studies of its validity and reliability for the...

Real Voices in Volunteering

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Family
Public Health
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Adfam published this volunteering toolkit to provide all the information, policy, law and resources needed on volunteering, families and substance use.

Volunteers have always played an essential role in the family support and substance use...

Supporting Families Affected by Substance Use and Domestic Violence

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Book
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Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Policy
Partner Organisation

This research report analyses how domestic violence and abuse is more likely than not to occur within intimate partner relationships where one partner has a problem with alcohol or drugs. The aims of this research project were:

  • To...

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Parents Deal with Children Who Use Substances and Perpetrate Abuse

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Book
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Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Partner Organisation

This report has been written by Adfam and Against Violence and Abuse (AVA) and covers the processes and findings of a joint project carried out by the two organisations in 2011/12 on child to parent violence and abuse. It reveals that every...

Consultation Findings for the BEAD Project

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Book
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Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Partner Organisation

Adfam and Cruse Bereavement Care undertook an exploration of the experiences of families and friends bereaved through drug and/ or alcohol use, with the aim of developing a range of peer support services and targeted information...

Drug and Alcohol Related Bereavement - Scoping Review

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Book
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Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Partner Organisation

Adfam and Cruse Bereavement Care carried out a four year drug and alcohol related bereavement project funded by the Big Lottery and running from 2010-14. The purpose of this review is to create a solid evidence-base from which the project...

Medications in Drug Treatment – Tackling the Risks to Children

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health

This report examines cases where children have died or come to harm from ingesting Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) medicines prescribed to help people overcome drug addiction. There have been 17 Serious Case Reviews involving the...

Becoming Visible: The Somali Community and Substance Use in London

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Book
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Family
Public Health
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Partner Organisation

In 2006 Adfam was awarded a three year grant by the Department for Communities and Local Government to work with the Somali community around substance use and family support in London.  Becoming visible gives an overview of the issues...

Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the Risks to Children – One Year on

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Partner Organisation

This ‘One Year On’ report expands upon the findings and recommendations of Adfam’s Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the risks to children, published in 2014, and further contributes to the debate on reducing the risks to children...