Peer mentors and volunteers are crucial to our service, says Max Griffiths. Our peer mentors at Via are people with lived experience who have previously...

The government has announced £9m funding to more than double the number of intensive supervision courts, which aim to cut reoffending by tackling the...

Just under two thirds of alcohol-related psychiatric admissions in Ireland are repeat admissions, according to figures from the country’s Health Research Board (HRB). There were...

The government’s independent adviser on drugs, Professor Dame Carol Black, visited Leicester on Tuesday to learn more about the innovative ways the city’s substance...

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole charity WithYou presents Peter Lee-Overy, and Debbie Millward, with volunteer awards for going above and beyond supporting people struggling with...

Illicit drugs are the single most destabilising factor across the entire adult prison estate, according to the annual report from the Independent Monitoring Boards...

There are still as many as ten times more women sleeping rough in some areas than are identified in the government’s official snapshot figures,...

Here comes a new approach to finally giving people on OST a genuine voice in their own care, says Professor Adam Winstock.Let me start...

Via is marking this year’s Volunteers’ Week by welcoming five newest Trustees to the Board and celebrating the contribution of all Board members who...

New psychoactive substances (NPS) are still being detected in Europe at a rate of ‘around one a week’, according to EUDA’s European drug report...

One in five alcohol products sold in the UK fail to meet the voluntary labelling guidelines set out by industry regulator the Portman Group,...

Safer nicotine alternatives like vapes will ‘inevitably and soon’ replace combustible cigarettes worldwide, former president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation Dr Alex...