Background In the past two decades, a number of studies investigating the role of the
therapeutic alliance in drug treatment have been published and it is timely that their findings …

BACKGROUND: Changes in per capita alcohol consumption are temporally linked to
changes in rates of alcohol-related harm. Methodological approaches for analysing this …

Issues Reviews recommend controlling alcohol availability to limit alcohol‐related harm.
However, the translation of this evidence into policy processes has proved challenging in …

Background Several countries are considering a minimum price policy for alcohol, but
concerns exist about the potential effects on drinkers with low incomes. We aimed to assess …

Background Although pricing policies for alcohol are known to be effective, little is known
about how specific interventions affect health-care costs and health-related quality-of-life …

BACKGROUND: To investigate the role of the therapeutic alliance in predicting length of
retention in residential drug treatment. METHODS: The study recruited 187 clients starting …

Introduction While evidence that alcohol pricing policies reduce alcohol-related health harm
is robust, and alcohol taxation increases are a WHO “best buy” intervention, there is a lack of …

Aims To predict the early therapeutic alliance from a range of potentially relevant factors,
including clients' social relationships, motivation and psychological resources, and …

Background and aims The concept of national drinking culture is well established in
research and policy debate, but rarely features in contemporary alcohol policy analysis. We …

Aims To explore how the concept of lay epidemiology can enhance understandings of how
drinkers make sense of current UK drinking guidelines. Methods Qualitative study using 12 …