Prisons / Corrections

For Whom Does Prison-Based Drug Treatment Work? Results from a Randomized Experiment

Scientific article

30 November 2014

For the first time in a prison setting, a randomised trial has rigorously compared intensive residential therapeutic community treatment to outpatient counselling. Confounding expectations, the US prison for problem drug users which hosted...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What If the Therapist ... Is Also the Jailer?

Book

31 May 2017

A cell in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. In an extreme form, the title poses the dilemma for alcohol treatment staff who may also be (seen as) working for authorities whose main role is to control or punish the ‘client’ or who may be...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment not for the Patient but for the Community

Book

17 May 2017

The final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix enters the domain of treatment organised not primarily for the patient, but to safeguard the wider community, encountering what seems a core contradiction depicted on the cover of WHO guidance...

Adult Substance Misuse Statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS)

Scientific article

12 May 2017

This report brings together information on people receiving specialist interventions for drug problems and for problem drinking in England, other than patients receiving this treatment in prison. Analysed textually and pictorially through...

Training of Peer Educators at Tihar Central Jail

News

SPYM has started a prison intervention program among drug abusing youth who are inmates of the Central Jail, Tihar in New Delhi. Peer educators have been identified and a training program was conducted by Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Executive...

Crime and Social Impacts of Alcohol

Book

6 February 2017

Alcohol-related crime and social disorder is estimated to cost UK taxpayers £11bn per year, at 2010/11 prices. [1] Alcohol-related crime makes up a substantial portion of violent offences across the UK (47% in England and Wales in 2014/15,...

New Online Training for Practitioners, Peer Mentors and Service Managers

News

This new platform allows substance misuse, probation and prison services to upskill their workforces in a scalable and consistent way, and optimise their use of the digital behaviour change programme Breaking Free. Service providers can now...