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Safer drinking

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Harmful youth drinking falls, but inequalities persist

DDN - June 8, 2015 0

Public health directors voice cuts concerns

DDN - February 5, 2016 0

Ex-drug users in battle for business title

DDN - November 12, 2012 0

Cultivating problem

DDN - May 8, 2013 0

PHE ‘does not recognise’ picture painted in think tank report

DDN - October 7, 2013 0

Government accepts ACMD’s ketamine recommendation

DDN - March 10, 2014 0

Foil rules for services come into force

DDN - September 8, 2014 0

ACMD highlights prevention knowledge gap

DDN - March 9, 2015 0

E-cigarettes ‘safer than smoking’

DDN - August 19, 2015 0

News in brief

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News focus

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News in brief

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OST: more needs to be done to protect children

DDN - May 6, 2014 0

Put calories on drinks labels, says public health body

DDN - November 4, 2014 0

Local news – May 2015

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Local news from the substance misuse field

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Rodrigo Duterte’s punishing regime

DDN - September 30, 2016 0

Improve cooperation to tackle criminal justice system’s health inequalities

DDN - January 23, 2017 0

Public health body backs festival drug testing

DDN - June 8, 2017 0

Big rise in numbers seeking treatment for crack

DDN - November 7, 2017 0

Royal College of Physicians comes out for decriminalisation

DDN - April 28, 2018 0

Time to publish ‘evidence based’ alcohol strategy, government told

DDN - October 16, 2018 0

Prison safety under threat from rising NPS use

DDN - June 7, 2019 0

Victor Adebowale to leave Turning Point after two decades

DDN - December 16, 2019 0

Gambling firms suspend TV ads during lockdown

DDN - April 28, 2020 0

Government launches wide ranging gambling review

DDN - December 9, 2020 0

Name change for SMMGP

DDN - May 5, 2021 0

Government consults on widening access to naloxone

DDN - August 5, 2021 0

People with substance issues ‘may be at higher risk’ of COVID

DDN - December 3, 2021 0

Fall in suspected Scottish drug deaths

DDN - March 16, 2022 0

Scottish alcohol deaths at highest level for 13 years

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Government pledges housing support cash for areas most in need

DDN - February 3, 2023 0

NHS extends homeless outreach programme for mental health

DDN - June 12, 2023 0

Myanmar overtakes Afghanistan as largest opium source

DDN - December 12, 2023 0

Children’s online spaces ‘saturated’ with gambling ads

DDN - April 22, 2024 0

Media Savvy: the news, and the skews, in the national media

DDN - December 5, 2016 0

‘Unprecedented’ purity levels for heroin, cocaine and ecstasy

DDN - February 12, 2017 0

Eighties deprivation blamed for Scots drug deaths

DDN - August 1, 2017 0

Politicians and charities call for ‘immediate’ minimum pricing

DDN - January 23, 2018 0

Scotland records highest ever drug deaths

DDN - July 3, 2018 0

Homeless deaths up by a quarter over five years

DDN - December 10, 2018 0

Services failing vulnerable people with alcohol problems

DDN - July 24, 2019 0

Cannabis legalisation a mental health risk, says Rethink

DDN - February 10, 2020 0

Urgent action needed to address lockdown ‘time bomb’, warns Adfam

DDN - June 26, 2020 0

Fall in drug-related hospital admissions

DDN - January 29, 2021 0

London gets first dedicated detox unit for homeless people

DDN - June 10, 2021 0

Humankind sets out harm reduction minimum standards

DDN - September 27, 2021 0

London cannabis decriminalisation will be ‘limited trial’

DDN - January 4, 2022 0

US drug deaths up by 15 per cent

DDN - May 13, 2022 0

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

DDN - November 11, 2022 0

Executions for drug offences up 850 per cent in two years

DDN - March 17, 2023 0

Scotland consults on raising minimum unit price to 65p

DDN - September 21, 2023 0

UK’s first regular drug testing facility launches in Bristol

DDN - January 26, 2024 0

Address ‘blind spot’ around older drinkers, charity urges

DDN - December 22, 2016 0

England and Wales should introduce minimum pricing, say Lords

DDN - April 5, 2017 0

Alcohol industry ‘misrepresenting’ cancer evidence

DDN - September 11, 2017 0

Increase focus on older people, royal college urges

DDN - March 8, 2018 0

Alcohol industry would lose £13bn if drinkers stuck to guidelines

DDN - August 23, 2018 0

Local authorities failing to provide sufficient naloxone

DDN - March 5, 2019 0

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