The National Association of Alcohol & Drug Addiction Counselors will host a webinar on 3 June on Second-Wave Mutual-Help Groups for Addiction Recovery. It will present the latest research on the relative effectiveness of these groups and address frequently asked questions…
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Treatment in the fentanyl era
According to Drugs Most Frequently Involved In Drug Overdose Deaths: US 2017-2023, fentanyl accounted for over 73,000 overdose deaths/ year in 2022 and 2023, and 69% of overdose deaths in 2023. It was also the most common drug linked to…
World No Tobacco Day is on Sunday
On World No Tobacco Day, the public health expert chairing the World Health Organization Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation warned that a new wave of nicotine and nicotine-like products could fundamentally reshape and expand the addiction market, making it…
Parliamentary answers
Recent answers in Parliament covered Prisons: Drugs – steps to help prison staff combat substance misuse by inmates, Retail Trade: Alcoholic Drinks and licensing laws on people who are visibly intoxicated/ vulnerable due to addiction, as well as Alcoholic Drinks: Delivery…
Prenatal alcohol exposure: 45% higher hazardous drinking at 16
University of Bristol examined the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on multiple risky behaviours in over 6,000 teens born in the 1990s – finding that adolescents with “infrequent” and “frequent” PAE were more likely to develop hazardous alcohol use at…
Alcohol misuse: family proceedings
Marie Law, director of toxicology at AlphaBiolabs, examines the most recent data on alcohol misuse in the UK, and the implications for alcohol testing in family proceedings. Where parental alcohol misuse is alleged or suspected, objective, court-admissible evidence is vital,…
Protective factors for adolescent substance use
University of Manchester and Liverpool John Moores University found that differences between schools matter more than differences between neighbourhoods for adolescent substance use. Strong parental and teacher relationships and school-based factors (eg, happiness with attainment) were protective against all substances.
Drug trafficking in the EU
The European Parliament released a 12-page briefing on Drug trafficking in the EU: A growing threat and how the EU tackles it. “The EU is fighting back with a strategy and actions focused on law enforcement, international cooperation and prevention.…
HIV and substance use
“The intersection of HIV and substance use continues to shape research priorities at NIDA. One of these priorities is to create bridges across the research continuum that can advance effective, evidence-based HIV and substance use interventions across biological, clinical and…
