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UK clinical guidelines recommending interventions for people with harmful patterns of drinking and alcohol dependence, supporting and promoting good practice.
Guidance for health and social care professionals on using the ASSIST-Lite tool to identify substance use and provide appropriate intervention.
Introduction Health and social care professionals are well placed to…
A framework setting out actions to improve treatment for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions through better integrated care.
Introduction Drug, alcohol and mental health problems are often…
The delivery framework sets out the actions needed to improve drug and…
The alcohol use screening tests can be used by health professionals as a tool to assess a service users level of risk to alcohol harm.
UK chief medical officers’ guidelines on how to keep health risks from drinking alcohol to a low level.
Funding to local councils to help them improve their drug and alcohol treatment and recovery systems, from 2025 to 2026.
Guidance on supporting lived experience initiatives and recovery support services to help people start and sustain recovery from problem drug and alcohol use.
Making the case for investing in effective alcohol treatment.
Guidance on referring alcohol dependent patients from hospital to specialist alcohol treatment in the hospital or in the community.
Information for people in drug and alcohol treatment about sharing their information with the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System.
Evidence and guidance on the benefits of mutual aid in preventing and treating alcohol and drug dependency.
Guidance for local authorities to support them in commissioning effective alcohol and drug treatment and recovery services in their areas.
Guidance on commissioning and providing better care for people with co-occurring mental health, and alcohol and drug use conditions.
A toolkit containing guidance, data and other resources to support professionals who are helping families affected by parental alcohol and drug problems.
A guide for local authorities and substance misuse services to help them work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Guidance for alcohol and drug treatment services to help them get the balance right between providing remote and in-person interventions for service users.
A toolkit to help local areas carry out a self-assessment to improve the residential drug and alcohol treatment that they commission.
Public health teams make sure that licensing policy and applications consider the health and wellbeing of local communities.
Information for NHS and public health professionals focusing on the life course approach which aims to give people fairer life chances.
Guidance on screening and providing brief advice for alcohol and tobacco use in inpatient settings.
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