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Commissioned by the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, the guideline on Drug misuse: psychosocial interventions provides recommendations to healthcare workers on how to work with people who abuse opiates, stimulants, and cannabis. It discusses the methods used to develop the recommendations; identification and recognition; brief interventions and reduction of injection and sexual risk behaviors; psychological interventions; and residential, prison, and inpatient care. The CD-ROM contains studies underpinning the recommendations, profile tables concerning the quality of the evidence and the results of the evidence synthesis, all meta-analytical data presented as forest plots, and information on how to use and interpret forest plots.