The IWSR Drinks Market Analysis showed that global alcohol consumption fell in 2025 as economic and geopolitical pressures (including US tariffs) continued to bite – but emerging markets, ready-to-drinks and younger wine drinkers provided “glimmers of hope for the future…
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Cannabis clinics: vested interests
Should clinics prescribe medicinal cannabis that they also supply? 5 Australian experts’ answers included “Click-and-prescribe models may prioritise profit over patient welfare”, “It’s a major conflict of interest”, “Harm is not always minimal” and “Convenience does not justify engaging in…
Parliamentary questions & answers
Parliamentary responses recently included Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs: Misuse (assessment of digital technologies in supporting treatment and recovery services for people with drug and alcohol addiction), Offenders: Addictions (increasing community-based rehabilitation in the treatment of alcohol and substance use and…
Scotland: injecting gear, naloxone
Public Health Scotland released Injecting equipment provision in Scotland (392 IEP outlets with 133,113 attendances) and National naloxone programme Scotland – Quarterly monitoring bulletin 1 July 2025 to 30 September 2025 (9,646 Take-Home Naloxone kits were issued).
Why does alcohol make us happy and miserable?
“We often call alcohol pharmacologically promiscuous,” Dr Rayyan Zafar of Imperial College London told the Guardian. “It doesn’t just calm you: it can stimulate reward pathways, dampen threat signals, release endogenous opioids that can relieve pain or stress, alter decision-making…
“Creeping legalisation of the most dangerous drug of all”
A mother who drowned her two sons in the bath. A father-of-two left in a psychotic state… Is the normalisation of cannabis driving the UK to a catastrophic mental health crisis? The Daily Mail cites research from the UK, US…
From detoxing to running the rehab
We know of many people in recovery from addiction who give back to the field by running rehabs or qualifying as counsellors – Jeremy Palmer once stayed at Burlington House to detox from addiction, and now he’s helping others to…
Derby b&b to be turned into a rehab
Tim Prosser, planning committee member and Alvaston councillor, said Living Recovery Foundation’s Jericho House in Alvaston, which is moving premises, had been an “absolute positive bonus” for the area. “I don’t know of any other rehab unit with such a…
RFK Jr’s thinking on addiction
US Department of Health and Human Services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr travelled to Arizona as part of his Take Back Your Health tour, meeting with leaders across health care, independent living and recovery to drive a prevention agenda. He…
