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Addiction psychiatry facing oblivion, royal college warns

DDN - February 19, 2020 0

OECD urges governments to get tough on alcohol

DDN - June 8, 2015 0

Homelessness ‘substantially’ increases BBV risk for people who inject drugs

DDN - March 26, 2021 0

Drink limits: more ‘clarity’ but controversy continues

DDN - September 2, 2016 0

Ireland at ‘tipping point’ with problem cocaine use

DDN - June 13, 2022 0

Drugs behind ‘huge increase’ in prison violence

DDN - July 10, 2018 0

Scottish Government set to increase MUP to 65p

DDN - February 9, 2024 0

Obama commutes drug sentences before leaving office

DDN - January 20, 2017 0

Codeine cough medicine could become prescription-only

DDN - July 18, 2023 0

Address ‘blind spot’ around older drinkers, charity urges

DDN - December 22, 2016 0

Drinks retailers lobbying against steep rise in MUP level

DDN - July 20, 2023 0

Problem drug use ‘not a personal failing’, says SDF manifesto

DDN - April 22, 2021 0

Alcohol-specific deaths in the UK reach highest ever level

DDN - December 12, 2022 0

Migrants will not be charged for most drug and alcohol services,...

DDN - January 14, 2019 0

DWP launches £3.7m mentoring scheme

DDN - May 22, 2023 0

Scots record highest ever drug deaths

DDN - September 4, 2012 0

Local authorities ‘not recognising impact’ of alcohol

DDN - May 6, 2014 0

Government announces health inequality research funding

DDN - October 13, 2022 0

European cocaine availability surpassing pre-pandemic levels

DDN - June 14, 2022 0

Time for a ‘fresh approach’ to policy, says UKDPC

DDN - November 5, 2012 0

ACMD rejects time-limited substitution therapy

DDN - November 7, 2014 0

Government plans ‘smoke-free generation’

DDN - October 5, 2023 0

Government announces £3.2m emergency funds for rough sleepers

DDN - March 18, 2020 0

Heaviest drinkers bought 17 times more alcohol than light drinkers during...

DDN - January 19, 2022 0

UK’s first Home Office-licensed drug checking service launches in Bristol

DDN - May 11, 2022 0

Met should routinely carry naloxone, says London Assembly Health Committee

DDN - March 18, 2022 0

UN highlights ‘alarming’ rise in new drugs

DDN - June 26, 2013 0

Round-up of National News, October

DDN - September 30, 2016 0

Cultivating problem

DDN - May 8, 2013 0

News in brief

DDN - December 1, 2014 0

Recommend vaping to help people quit smoking, says NICE

DDN - June 25, 2021 0

Fentanyl behind 80 per cent increase in New York overdose deaths

DDN - January 16, 2023 0

Alcohol monitoring tags to be rolled out nationally

DDN - November 18, 2021 0

Number of young people in treatment up by 10 per cent

DDN - January 26, 2024 0

Cannabis becomes legal in Canada

DDN - October 16, 2018 0

A week’s units ‘for the price of a coffee’

DDN - November 10, 2020 0

Scots consult on alcohol marketing curbs

DDN - November 18, 2022 0

Tobacco plan aims for ‘smoke-free generation’

DDN - July 19, 2017 0

Children of treatment staff can continue to attend school, PHE confirms

DDN - March 23, 2020 0

NHS to open young persons’ gambling clinic

DDN - June 24, 2019 0

Put health warnings on all alcohol labels, say MPs

DDN - August 21, 2014 0

Poor labelling keeping drinkers ‘in the dark’

DDN - February 16, 2022 0

Boost harm reduction to halt deaths, government urged

DDN - September 2, 2017 0

Cost of gambling harms ‘at least’ £1.27bn a year

DDN - October 1, 2021 0

Coronavirus guidance issued for providers and commissioners

DDN - April 16, 2020 0

Substance misuse staff eligible for testing

DDN - April 20, 2020 0

Aggressive marketing and changing attitudes driving increased crack use

DDN - March 26, 2019 0

SNP votes to back decriminalisation

DDN - October 15, 2019 0

Government announces interim housing plans for rough sleepers

DDN - June 24, 2020 0

Better data sharing needed to tackle opioid crisis, warns Cranstoun

DDN - August 31, 2023 0

News Focus

DDN - May 8, 2013 0

News in brief

DDN - August 30, 2013 0

Heavy cannabis use can cause lasting cognitive problems in young

DDN - September 3, 2012 0

Use cannabis reform to ‘repair historical injustices’, say campaigners

DDN - January 12, 2022 0

Deaths in treatment up by almost 30 per cent

DDN - November 26, 2021 0

‘Bold policies’ needed to tackle drug deaths crisis, says royal college

DDN - March 3, 2021 0

Establish royal commission on drug policy, says select committee

DDN - December 10, 2012 0

New EU ‘roadmap’ to address drug trafficking and violence

DDN - October 19, 2023 0

Legal cannabis tax could be worth £1bn

DDN - November 21, 2016 0

Service users search for the ‘wow factor’

DDN - November 13, 2016 0

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