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
Community interventions to reduce harms from alcohol and other drug use Prevention alcohol, not-drug specific, cannabis communities Unknown effectiveness
Telemedicine-delivered treatment interventions for substance use disorders Treatment alcohol, opioids, 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
School-based eHealth interventions to prevent risk behaviours Prevention not-drug specific young people Unknown effectiveness
School-based generic prevention programs in preventing alcohol misuse in school-aged children up to 18 years of age Prevention alcohol school Unknown effectiveness
Needle and syringe programmes in prison to prevent HIV and HCV infection and reduce injecting risk behaviours Harm reduction opioids prison Unknown effectiveness
Brief interventions delivered in general medical settings to reduce use and harms Treatment alcohol, cannabis Unknown effectiveness
Opioid withdrawal for adolescent opioid users Treatment opioids young people Unknown effectiveness
Occupation-based interventions to improve recovery outcomes Social reintegration Unknown effectiveness
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
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
School-based brief interventions to reduce substance use and delinquent-type behaviours Prevention alcohol, cannabis school Unknown effectiveness

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