University of Sheffield published What Are the Characteristics of Households That Purchase Alcohol-Free and Low-Alcohol Drinks in Great Britain in 2018 and 2021? Households from higher social grades who purchase more alcohol are also more likely to regularly purchase NoLo products.
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Interventions for CUD
University of Bristol published Comparative effectiveness, safety and acceptability of pharmacological and psychosocial interventions for the treatment of cannabis use disorder: a network meta-analysis – some psychosocial approaches can facilitate abstinence, reduce use and/or support treatment completion for cannabis use disorder but…
Shisha tobacco needs smoking policy
There are at least 996 shisha cafes in the UK, a rise of 33% in the past 5 years, and London has more shisha cafes than branches of McDonald’s – but the smoking of shisha tobacco is overlooked as a…
London clubbers change alcohol habit
Diminishing demand for late-night drinking and rising operating costs mean London’s nightclubs must work harder to keep their doors open. Younger partygoers are demanding more than access to after-hours alcohol, forcing clubbing venues to focus on providing an ‘experience’ and to…
Prenatal smoking: mental health issues in children
Children exposed to maternal smoking before birth are more likely to experience behavioral and mental health challenges, according to the US National Institutes of Health’s Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Program . Previous research had linked prenatal smoking to…
AI identifies 10 recovery factors
The University of Hawaii is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to better understand what improves outcomes for people treated for substance use disorders – it analyzed over 7.9million publicly available treatment records across the US to identify patterns in…
US drug overdoses: flawed modelling?
Last June, mainstream media reported a surge in US drug overdose deaths in early 2025, based on data from the CDC. A new Northwestern University study “found that surge was not real – the apparent spike was a statistical modeling artifact,…
Addiction research news roundup
The Partnership to End Addiction collated recent research including reductions in cigarette and cannabis use during a clinical trial for alcohol use disorder, a 5-year retrospective study on community care for opioid use disorder, a web-based vaping and smoking intervention, substance…
Blue cities: at last sane on drugs
“Public policy should consider the impact of drug use on others, not just users… the best goal for addicted people is not mere survival but recovery; it is socially just for police to prevent public spaces from being taken over…
Alcohol warning labels, MUP, cancer
Alcohol contributes to at least 7 types of cancer and, globally, alcohol accounted for about 1 in 24 cancer cases in 2020. Canada’s University of Victoria estimated that alcohol caused 9,498 cancer cases and 3,866 cancer deaths in 2022 –…
