Brazil could have joined the US-led effort to combat drug cartels if presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro won its runoff election this weekend, according to Fox News. The initiative, the Shield of the Americas, aims to expand security cooperation among countries…
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Tobacco & Vapes Act: Wales
The Welsh government published The Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (Age of Sale Notices and Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026: impact assessments encompassing health, equality, integrated impact and children’s rights.
PHW: schoolchildren gambling
The Secondary School Children’s Health and Well-being Dashboard, published by Public Health Wales with The School Health Research Network at Cardiff University, showed that self-reported gambling in year 11 boys aged 15-16 in Wales significantly rose since the last survey…
FT working it: addiction
This week in the FT Working It newsletter, Isabel Berwick looked into the state of support for working people who are struggling with behavioural or substance addictions, or who are in recovery. The answers are: there’s not much of it…
“Can we cure addiction?”
In this 42-minute Question of Science podcast, Professor Brian Cox was joined by psychiatrist Dr Nicky Kalk of South London and Maudsley, Professor Sally Marlow of King’s College London and musician Matt Willis for a discussion exploring whether addiction can…
Addiction recovery employment app
Sponss will be launched today, a recovery companion app created from Jonathan Stock’s experience of addiction and recovery. The app includes recovery trackers, gratitude journals, daily inventories, meeting resources, a recovery community and AI-powered Talk to Sponss – with a…
SUD Expenditures in the US
NIDA et al published Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Expenditures in the US, based on the 2021-2023 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. They found that annualized mental health care expenditures totalled $174billion: 7% of all medical expenditures. Mood and anxiety…
Research news roundup
The Partnership to End Addiction gathered recent research on Recovery capital and substance(s) of ‘choice’ in adolescents, Semaglutide for alcohol use disorder, Self-reported e-cigarette nicotine strength, Prenatal cannabis use links to anxiety, depression and alcohol and nicotine – and more.
