Summary

Following completion of the Alcohol and Chemical Dependency programme, significant and large reductions in psychological markers of substance and/or alcohol dependency were observed.

These results suggest that the introduction of the LDQ as a measure to evaluate this programme was been successful and will continue to be used as the primary outcome measure in 2017. The low response rate means that the findings presented may not be representative of all participants who completed the programme and need to be interpreted in light of this. Response rates are expected to improve in 2017 as a result of post measures measures being administered as part of the exit interview.