The effectiveness of compulsory, residential treatment of chronic alcohol or drug addiction in non-offenders (PDF 1.2mb)
This systematic review provides a summary of the evidence pertaining to the effectiveness of compulsory detention for residential treatment in people with chronic alcoholism and/or drug addiction. Compulsory detention was considered where it occurred as a civil committal, rather than through the criminal justice system, to be relevant to its use within New Zealand’s Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Act 1966.
Subcutaneous insulin pump therapy (PDF 794kb)
This systematic review provides a summary of the recent evidence pertaining to the relative effectiveness, safety, and cost-effectiveness of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) in patients with insulin treated diabetes, when compared to optimised multiple daily injections (MDI). The report considers both children and adults, with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes.