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David Best
David Best
Location: Birmingham, UK
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16
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DATE ADDED:
12-02-2008
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David suggests that since the NICE Guidelines are taken from hard science, we are applying them to the wrong types of questions 

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Footnotes
1) National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Psychosocial Guideline
In 2007 NICE produced two guidelines on drug misuse. Drug misuse: psychosocial interventions [NICE clinical guideline 51] and Drug misuse: opioid detoxification [NICE clinical guideline 52]. See http://www.nice.org.uk/CG51
2) Clinical trial: Project MATCH

Project MATCH Research Group. (1993). Project MATCH: Rationale and methods for a multisite clinical trial matching patients to alcoholism treatment. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 17, 1130-1145.

3) Clinical Trial: UK Alcohol Treatment Trial (UKATT)

Effectiveness of treatment for alcohol problems: findings of the randomised UK alcohol treatment trial (UKATT). UKATT Research Team   

4) Paper: ENABLING DEPENDENT DRUG USERS: A COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL ASSESSMENT

 Paper

ENABLING DEPENDENT DRUG USERS: A COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL ASSESSMENT

Julian Buchanan [ Buchanan, J ]

 

5) Article: It makes you think... MATCH - the untold story (Mike Ashton Drug and Alcohol Findings)

Mike Ashton / Findings

http://www.alcoholpolicy.net/2005/09/it_makes_you_th.html

6) CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)

Royal College of Psychiatrists Definition of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). 
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