comments from researchers
gained an international reputation among
researchers and an enthusiastic following among UK practitioners.
Readers
value the unique focus on how to maximise the benefits for their clients,
patients and communities, and the combination of analytic quality
allied with practicality and readability. Below some of the compliments paid to
the project. Full list of comments also available plus results of the 2008 site user survey.
comments from practitioners
"Just the sort of thing our treatment centres need to help them improve their services by taking account
of the latest research."
Simon Shepherd Chief Executive
Federation of Drug and Alcohol Professionals
"Weighty papers, huge studies and complex themes are not only beautifully
distilled but also linked to others on the same theme and put in to context."
Dr Laurence Gruer Director of Public Health Science
Health Scotland
"By far the most useful and readable publication in the field." Dr Luke Mitcheson
Consultant Clinical Psychologist S. London and Maudsley NHS Trust
"Findings is a GREAT mag and often of great use to us. The
serendipity of seeing the paper just at the time
it was so useful was magic."
Russ Hayton Clinical and Service Governance Manager Plymouth
Drug and Alcohol Action Team
"Findings is excellent and heavily influenced our new policy."
Nick Royle Drug Strategy Coordinator Scottish Prison Service
"Really does bridge the gap between research and practice. excellent, authoritative and succinct."
Andrew Bennett Director HIT
"A tremendous help to those of us who can be described as 'overworked, underpaid and over-monitored'.
Also nice to read and to look at."
Nick Tegerdine Executive Director
Alcohol Problems Advisory Service
"We need something like this for the USA! I really like the compact text and
the breakout Nuggets and the clarity. Now this is the kind of thing field
practitioners can actually use."
Dr Charles Vaughan Therapist, Dual Diagnosis Specialist,
Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., USA
"Great writing and superb summarising and pulling things together:
it is a vital art, and you are a real master at it."
Professor Richard Velleman Director
Mental Health Unit
University of Bath
"The DATOS team is grateful for the thorough and well-balanced review of our research.
Such a comprehensive and integrative commentary on this type of complex project is rare."
Professor D. Dwayne Simpson
DATOS
Collaborator and Director
Institute of Behavioral Research
Texas Christian University
"I was very impressed with the thoroughness of your review of studies
of the Strengthening Families Program. No one has ever done that so well before."
Professor Karol Kumpfer
University of Utah
and originator of the
Strengthening Families Program
"I don't think I have ever seen so much useful and well integrated information
in one place. I just started at the front and couldn't put [it] down."
Professor A. Thomas McLellan Director
Treatment Research Institute
and Editor in Chief
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
"Not only an honest and fair representation of the trial, but also a creative
and clinically meaningful way to communicate its implications ... some rather
insightful interpretations ... an excellent article."
Professor Thomas Babor Principal Investigator
Project
MATCH
and Head of the Department of Community Medicine at the
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
"Excellent! You wrote beautifully, and above all, you touched the soul of my
work. Thank you!"
Dr Zhiwei Zhang
NORC
University of Chicago