The long terms impact of lockdown is beginning to be felt. One of the most dramatic impacts has been an almost 20 per cent increase in...

The Government has published the new 10 Year Strategy. I have not had time to fully digest it at present but will be reviewing sections...

Concerned Others, the parents, partners and close friends of those with substance misuse problems, are a neglected group at the best of...

A recent qualitative study has identified six strategies that recovering alcoholics use to negotiate social situations and remain sober,...

There are well documented risk factors associated with developing substance use disorder across all age groups. A recent study from IUPUI...

Historically we have always been very fixated on modality-or type of therapy- and have always assumed that this is responsible for...

I was delighted to be invited to speak at DHI's Concerned Other Conference Reach Out 2020. Despite the challenges of lock down, DHI...

COVID is impacting on drug and alcohol use globally. One of the first reports to look at international data has just been published. ...

Lockdown has had a big impact on everyone but especially those who are in receipt of opiate prescribing treatments. Daily administration...

A great word I heard recently was anticipointment. This when you find that something you thought would be great turns out to be rubbish....

Recent advances in neuroscience are unlocking how the major personality traits are linked to neural systems. One personality trait,...

Spirituality has increasing become an important focus in drug and alcohol recovery. Whilst hard to define and quantify from a research...

Throughout 2019, Developing Health & Independence (DHI), have been marking their 20th anniversary as a charity by looking to the future....

Rehabs are often believed to ineffective or only as effective as community based treatments. There are a lot of myths about rehabs and...

Progress are a consortium of consultant nurses who established a professional forum in supporting practitioners and services users...

The needs of trans gendered populations are rarely explored in the wider research base on addictions. Findings have produced a great...

More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States. In other parts of the world, cannabis use has become almost as...

I remain ambivalent about drug laws. So the emergence of "legal highs" or "new psychoactive substances" as they are now called has...

In my first book-Drug Induced- I demonstrated that opiate overdose was rarely ever linked to drug purity. Reviewing research and...

New research from an international team led by Oxford University's Department of Zoology and the National-Kapodistrian University of...