Alcohol and drug misuse prevention and treatment guidance
Information and other resources to support commissioners, service providers and others providing alcohol and drug interventions.
Healthcare professionals can use these guidance documents, information and resources to help with providing and improving alcohol and drug misuse prevention and treatment services.
Visit Alcohol and drug misuse and treatment statistics for reports and datasets on the prevalence and treatment of alcohol and drug misuse treatment in England.
Visit Alcohol and drug misuse core dataset collection guidance for information and other resources to support alcohol and drug service providers collect and submit data.
Evidence reviews and inquiries
Guidance for commissioners and providers of alcohol and drug services
- Alcohol and drug prevention, treatment and recovery: why invest?
- Safeguarding children affected by parental alcohol and drug use
- New psychoactive substances toolkit for commissioners
- Alcohol and drug treatment quality governance
- Routes to recovery from substance addiction
- Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management
- Treating drug dependence recovery with medication
- Preventing drug and alcohol misuse: effective interventions
- Service user involvement in alcohol and drug misuse treatment
- Services to treat dependence on medicines
- Mutual aid toolkit for alcohol and drug misuse treatment
- Treating substance misuse and related harm: turning evidence into practice
- Local alcohol services and systems improvement tool
- Alcohol, drugs and tobacco: commissioning support pack
Guidance for health and care professionals
Reducing harm and preventing drug related deaths
- Substance misuse services for men involved in chemsex
- Issuing public health alerts about drugs
- Providing take-home naloxone for opioid overdose
- Widening the availability of naloxone
- Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK
- Fentanyl: preparing for a future threat
- Fentanyl: safety recommendations for first responders
- Health matters: preventing drug misuse deaths
- Drug health harms: national intelligence
- Preventing drug related deaths
- Trends in drug misuse deaths in England
Support for substance misuse and mental health problems
Preventing ill health from alcohol misuse in hospital patients
Alcohol and drug treatment in prisons and secure settings
Professional roles in alcohol and drug misuse treatment
Public Health England (PHE) has published guidance on the role of professionals in alcohol and drug misuse treatment. It has also supported guidance published by others on the role of social workers and the role of clinical psychologists.
Social return on investment and value for money tools
Last updated 10 September 2019 + show all updates
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