Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a model of employment support that originated in secondary mental health services. Following successful trials in 2018, IPS...

Alcohol treatment for young people in England is more than twice as likely to fail for those not in employment, education or training (NEET),...

The UK’s first safer drug consumption facility, Glasgow’s The Thistle, has been accessed 11,348 times by almost 600 people since it opened a year...

Researchers in the US have identified an abnormally slow heart rate, known as ‘bradycardia’, as a symptom of xylazine-opioid overdose. The breakthrough finding could...

The key to reducing recidivism is to focus on relationships, says Raje Ballagan-Evans. When we think of a man in prison, ‘father’ is unlikely to...

The government is to consult on lowering the alcohol limit for drivers as part of the first road safety strategy in a decade. The...

Although digital technology is transforming all our lives, many organisations in the field have been slow to keep up. A recent EUDA webinar offered...

The government has launched a ten-week consultation on making naloxone available in homelessness shelters, hostels and day centres. The consultation also includes proposals to...

Dame Carol Black has been appointed to the role of independent advisor to the government on drugs, DHSC and the Home Office have announced....

The government has announced a total of £13.45bn Public Health Grant funding over the coming three years. The funding brings together four funding streams...

There were 417 drug poisoning deaths registered in Wales last year, according to the latest Public Health Wales figures, 288 of which were drug...

DRINK AND DRUGS NEWS (DDN) is the monthly magazine for everyone working with substance use issues. Since 2004 it has become established as the...

A landmark three-year study to map and evaluate Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (LEROs) will launch next March. The £1.46m project will be funded by...

The exponential increase in cocaine production and trafficking has developed into ‘an unprecedented phenomenon’, according to the final statement of outgoing EUDA executive director...

A new Co-occurring mental health and substance use delivery framework has been published by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS...

The government has announced that it intends to halve rough sleeping and ‘prevent homelessness before it occurs’, as part of its new National Plan...

Despite its long track record in aiding recovery, auriculotherapy has fallen out of favour in recent years – the victim of restrictive byelaws and...

The Local Government Association (LGA) has issued a call for ‘urgent action’ to tackle patient brokering in the treatment sector. Patient brokering is the...

JANUARY A ‘people’s panel’ set up to look into the ‘public health emergency’ of drug harms in Scotland recommends ring-fenced funding and a focus on...

Turning Point’s harm reduction-focused event invited new thinking on a collaborative approach, as Clare Taylor explains. Our fourth Safer Lives conference brought together more than...

Alcohol treatment for young people in England is more than twice as likely to fail for those not in employment, education or training (NEET),...

The UK’s first safer drug consumption facility, Glasgow’s The Thistle, has been accessed 11,348 times by almost 600 people since it opened a year...

Researchers in the US have identified an abnormally slow heart rate, known as ‘bradycardia’, as a symptom of xylazine-opioid overdose. The breakthrough finding could...

The government is to consult on lowering the alcohol limit for drivers as part of the first road safety strategy in a decade. The...

The government has launched a ten-week consultation on making naloxone available in homelessness shelters, hostels and day centres. The consultation also includes proposals to...

Dame Carol Black has been appointed to the role of independent advisor to the government on drugs, DHSC and the Home Office have announced....

The government has announced a total of £13.45bn Public Health Grant funding over the coming three years. The funding brings together four funding streams...

There were 417 drug poisoning deaths registered in Wales last year, according to the latest Public Health Wales figures, 288 of which were drug...

Urgent international action is needed to address the ‘unseen epidemic’ of tobacco-related deaths among people with mental health issues, say researchers from the University...

A landmark three-year study to map and evaluate Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (LEROs) will launch next March. The £1.46m project will be funded by...

The exponential increase in cocaine production and trafficking has developed into ‘an unprecedented phenomenon’, according to the final statement of outgoing EUDA executive director...

A new Co-occurring mental health and substance use delivery framework has been published by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS...

The government has announced that it intends to halve rough sleeping and ‘prevent homelessness before it occurs’, as part of its new National Plan...

The Local Government Association (LGA) has issued a call for ‘urgent action’ to tackle patient brokering in the treatment sector. Patient brokering is the...

There were almost 330,000 adults in contact with drug and alcohol treatment services in the year to March 2025, according to the latest NDTMS...

The most potent illicit benzodiazepine tablets are more than 50 times stronger than the weakest, according to a new study by King’s College London....

The government has launched its new HIV action plan, which aims to tackle stigma and end transmissions in England by 2030. The £170m initiative...

The first government-backed THINK! drug driving campaign in a decade has been launched ahead of the Christmas period. The campaign specifically targets young men,...

The tax on online casino-style games will almost double from 21 per cent to 40 per cent, the chancellor has announced as part of...

Fifty-three per cent of UK adults either have personal experience of addiction or know someone who has, according to an IPSOS poll commissioned by...