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Title | Area | Substance | Target group(s) or setting(s) | Evidence rating |
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Intensive family-based programmes to prevent smoking | Prevention | tobacco | families | Beneficial |
Family and school based programmes to prevent smoking | Prevention | tobacco | families, school | Beneficial |
Ecological family-based treatments to reduce adolescent substance use | Treatment | alcohol, cannabis | families, young people | Beneficial |
Multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) vs. individual psychotherapy (IP) on retention in treatment and to reduce use | Treatment | cannabis | families, young people | Beneficial |
Comprehensive family-oriented prevention for cannabis use | Prevention | cannabis | families, young people | Likely to be beneficial |
Home visitation for disadvantaged families | Prevention | alcohol, tobacco | families | Likely to be beneficial |
Standalone parental training to reduce risk behaviours | Prevention | not-drug specific | families | Likely to be beneficial |
Psychosocial interventions to improve outcomes in families with parental substance misuse | Treatment | alcohol, not-drug specific | families | Likely to be beneficial |
Psychosocial interventions delivered to affected others of people with addictions | Treatment | not-drug specific | families | Likely to be beneficial |
Multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) vs cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to reduce use | Treatment | cannabis | families, young people | Likely to be beneficial |
Multi-component prevention programs for alcohol misuse in young people | Prevention | alcohol | communities, families, school, young people | Likely to be beneficial |
Support groups combined with peer mentor training delivered to young people with parents or other family members who are substance users | Prevention | not-drug specific | families, young people | Likely to be beneficial |
Integrated care of infectious diseases and substance use disorders to improve infectious disease treatment outcomes | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Family and individual-based interventions to prevent multiple risk behaviours relating to alcohol, tobacco and drug use | Prevention | alcohol, cannabis, tobacco | families | Unknown effectiveness |
Family focused interventions that address parental domestic violence and abuse, mental ill-health, and substance misuse | Treatment | not-drug specific | families | Unknown effectiveness |
Interventions to reduce intimate partner violence perpetration by men who use substances | Harm reduction | not-drug specific | families | Unknown effectiveness |