Interventions supported by scientific evidence for substance abuse treatment, harm reduction and prevention

With a few exceptions, the evidence on the effectiveness of the interventions considered comes from studies that have not specifically targeted First Nations or Inuit communities or individuals and the generalizability of the results to these peoples needs further research. [...] Summary of Results Tables 1 to 5 show the authors’ assessment of the evidence for the effectiveness of specific types of treatment, harm reduction and prevention interventions and indicate the types of evidence considered. [...] However, the basic classification system used in Table 5 took into account the quality of the individual studies based on the criteria above and the extent of replicated effectiveness across different types of samples. [...] Interventions Supported by Scientific Evidence for Substance Abuse Treatment Harm Reduction and Prevention 13 The prevention research suggests that universal interventions may be most appropriate in the case of alcohol due to the “prevention paradox” which refers to the observation that the bulk of the population who are at average-risk collectively experience more harm from drinking compared with [...] The aim is to test whether 8 The NDARC report devoted 12 pages to a review of the evidence for the effectiveness of pharmacotherapies.