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Psychosocial Interventions Resource Library (PIRL)
The NTA’s Psychosocial Interventions Resource Library is designed to help practitioners improve the quality of psychosocial treatments available to drug misusing clients. It is a resource made up of evidence-based or expert panel-derived protocols and other resources for effective treatment of such clients, consistent with Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management (DH & devolved administration, 2007) and NICE clinical guideline 51 (NICE, 2007). It is in addition to the resources provided in the Psychosocial interventions in drug misuse: a framework and toolkit for implementing NICE-recommended treatment interventions (NTA/BPS, 2009). It is hoped that services will use the framework to identify treatment protocols relevant to their clients’ needs and the relevant training and supervision requirements for their staff.
The resource library includes interventions that did not reach the threshold to be recommended in NICE clinical guideline 51 (NICE, 2007) and would not therefore normally be recommended for routine clinical use. However, these resources may be useful for developing research materials and may also be a reference point for work with individual clients as part of local service-based protocols.