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Children exposed to gambling content at ‘unprecedented levels’

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Thirteen per cent fall in Scottish drug deaths

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Ireland introduces mandatory alcohol labelling

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DWP launches £3.7m mentoring scheme

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Economic cost of smoking is £14bn a year, says ASH

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NHS makes free confidential hep C tests available

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New Scottish campaign gives voice to people bereaved by substance use

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Lukewarm response to gambling white paper

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Government plans mandatory levy on gambling firms

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Record seizures of cocaine and ketamine

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Scotland could be ‘sleep walking’ back to record alcohol deaths

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Semi-synthetic cannabinoids on the rise, says EMCDDA

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Premier League clubs to voluntarily withdraw shirt-front gambling ads

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Germany scales back legal cannabis plans

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William Hill businesses fined almost £20m

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Government bans nitrous oxide

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New resource to help minority ethnic groups

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MUP cut alcohol-related deaths by 13 per cent, says study

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Executions for drug offences up 850 per cent in two years

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Global cocaine production sees ‘dramatic’ increase, says UNODC

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Almost 300 suspected Scottish drug deaths in final quarter of 2022

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Peer-to-peer naloxone programmes have transformational potential, says SDF

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Government announces innovation fund to reduce drug use

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ACMD advises government not to ban nitrous oxide

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NHS England publishes new action framework for prescription drugs

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Campaigners urge chancellor to increase alcohol duty

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Government confirms £421m treatment funding for next two years

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Drug-free wings operating in 45 prisons

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Government bans 11 synthetic opioids

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Government pledges housing support cash for areas most in need

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Canadian province decriminalises opioids and cocaine

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Myanmar opium poppy cultivation up by a third

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Make naloxone routinely available to police, paramedics and public, says Turning...

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Another increase in suspected Scottish drug deaths

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Number of people in alcohol treatment up by 10 per cent

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Canada revises low-risk drinking guidelines to ‘one to two’ drinks per...

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BDP’s inspirational founder Maggie Telfer dies aged 63

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Scottish Government committed to tackling ‘public health emergency’ of record drug...

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One in seven planning to do Dry January

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Alcohol duty freeze extended by six months

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Ecstasy use halved during pandemic

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Alcohol-specific deaths in the UK reach highest ever level

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Proportion of smokers falls to lowest ever level

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Two in five deaths of homeless people drug related

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Scottish alcohol sales down 3 per cent since MUP

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The Loop given charity status

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Scots consult on alcohol marketing curbs

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Supermarket alcohol prices in Scotland rose by 18 per cent after...

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Time for a ‘polluter pays’ levy on tobacco firms, says APPG

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More countries implementing harm reduction services

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New liver cancer support service launched

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Welsh drug deaths up by almost half 

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Government announces health inequality research funding

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Biden pardons thousands convicted of cannabis possession

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Global drug executions up by more than 300 per cent

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More young people vaping while fewer taking drugs

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