The European Union Drugs Agency yesterday published Dual disorders: health and social responses. The issue gained greater visibility in Europe in recent years, particularly after Covid lockdowns, when increased stress, social isolation and disruption to healthcare services contributed to worsening…
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Latest updates from EUDA
The European Union Drugs Agency shared its 2nd newsletter yesterday, featuring Advancing health and social responses to drug challenges such as events on the horizon, new miniguides, summer school and more.
Test to spot alcohol blackouts
University of Missouri has established the 1st objective, real-time method to detect alcohol-induced blackouts while a person is actively drinking. The research addresses a critical public health obstacle: the historical inability to identify a blackout until the following day, after…
Not all young adults “mature out” of risky drinking
The Recovery Research Institute shared an indepth analysis of Columbia University et al’s Maturing out or in? Demographic determinants of young adult drinking trajectories and midlife alcohol use disorder risks. Members of the higher risk drinking classes tend to be men,…
How environments support recovery
For many people recovering from addiction, returning to the classrooms, workplaces and social circles frequented before recovery means facing the environments that made recovery difficult in the first place. The University of Calgary tackles this with recovery science that shifts the…
What alcohol does to your brain before you drive
“Alcohol impairs judgment and reaction time before many people recognize that they are impaired,” Hartford Hospital’s medical director for urgent care explained. “Even when someone feels normal, alcohol may already be affecting the brain’s ability to… respond appropriately behind the wheel.”…
Why some anti-vaping campaigns miss
Vaping education campaigns in Australia could be missing key opportunities to support behaviour change, the University of Queensland found. A review of publicly available vaping media campaigns launched in Australia before May 2025 found almost half had ‘vague’ or no guidance…
Combating Drugs Partnerships: evaluation
Process evaluation of Combating Drugs Partnerships explores how CDPs have been set up and how they operate, including partnership structures, leadership, governance, funding, data sharing and approaches to monitoring outcomes. It highlights variation in how CDPs prioritise activity, and practical…
MPs call for statutory social media ban for children
The Education Committee today calls for a statutory ban on social media for children, alongside urgent action to curb features it says are deliberately designed to drive excessive screen use among children and young people. However, the Committee stresses that…
