Drugs and Alcohol

Sara Burns has a ten year track record in this field. She worked over three years with twenty-one organisations to introduce an outcomes approach for alcohol misuse service.  Her book “The DIY Guide to Outcome Monitoring” (Alcohol Concern, 1997, second edition 2000) is based on that programme. This work won Alcohol Concern the Charity Award 2000.

In 2002/03, Sara work with 40 organisations in the substance misuse field over eighteen months to develop and pilot a common outcomes tool – the Alcohol Outcomes Spider.


“At last we have a tool that is able to demonstrate and qualify much of the anecdotal evidence that we have hitherto relied upon”
Service Provider referring to the Outcomes Spider

DIY_guide_outcomes_book.jpgJoy managed a national review of community drugs agencies as part of the Department of Health’s Task force to Review Services for Drug Misusers and authored the report “Managing Community Drugs Agencies” published by Policy Press.






Publication of the award-winning programme