Table 4 Intervention and resource allocation preferences of professionals working in the alcohol and other drugs field in Australia (N = 41)
Interventions (in order of most often implemented) | Proportion of professionals who selected (%) | Average amount allocated when selected ($'000) |
|---|---|---|
Training General Practitioners | 61.0 | 17.9 |
School programs | 36.6 | 10.9 |
Community programs | 33.8 | 15.3 |
   Family programs | 26.8 | 9.1 |
   Integration between programs | 34.1 | 16.8 |
   Targeting high risk groups | 53.7 | 15.4 |
   Expand social work services | 43.9 | 21.1 |
   Availability of self-help materials | 4.9 | 5.0 |
   Community drug and alcohol counsellors | 31.7 | 14.0 |
   Broad community development | 41.5 | 25.9 |
Promote safer drinking | 31.7 | 8.7 |
   Harm reduction code of practice | 46.3 | 9.3 |
   Supply reduction code of practice | 29.3 | 8.4 |
   Training hotel staff | 31.7 | 8.0 |
   Regional radio | 29.3 | 6.7 |
   Regional television | 26.8 | 11.9 |
   Local newspapers | 26.8 | 7.9 |
Hospital/Emergency Departments | 24.4 | 11.2 |
   Training Emergency Department staff | 43.9 | 14.4 |
   Training general hospital staff | 24.4 | 7.7 |
   Support drug and alcohol specialist clinics | 17.1 | 16.5 |
   Training ambulance officers | 12.2 | 6.3 |
Police activity | 28.4 | 15.0 |
   Enforcement of liquor licensing laws | 39.0 | 19.9 |
   Random breath testing | 34.1 | 17.4 |
   More effective sentencing options | 12.2 | 7.7 |
Pharmacists | 14.6 | 6.0 |