The Sublocade withdrawal from Australia leaves patients with the highest opioid tolerances without their most effective treatment option. US pharmaceutical company Indivior has confirmed it will stop supplying Sublocade in Australia from 31 December 2026, according to IBTimes. The decision ends access to a treatment that addiction specialists say has transformed the lives of patients recovering from opioid dependence. Sublocade...
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Finding a vape in your child’s bag used to mean one conversation. Nicotine, maybe. Cannabis, possibly. These days, that conversation is a lot more complicated, because a growing number of the vapes turning up in schoolbags and bedrooms across the UK aren’t cannabis at all. They’re spice vapes, and most of the young people using them have no idea. Spice,...
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The Government’s Own DEA Scientist Challenges the Scientific Foundation for Marijuana Rescheduling
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Simple Mental Health Habits Backed by Real Research
Feeling low doesn’t always call for a major intervention. A handful of small, research-backed mental health habits can lift a bad mood in a real, measurable way, even if they’re never a substitute for treating serious depression, acute anxiety or other clinical conditions. Anyone dealing with those should still talk to a doctor or a trusted person, not rely on...
New Canadian Data Sharpen the Case Against Cannabis Smoking’s Toll on the Lungs
Rising rates of cannabis use worldwide have renewed scientific attention on a question long overshadowed by the tobacco debate: what does inhaling burnt cannabis actually do to the human airway? A newly published Canadian investigation, presented recently through the IASIC Speaker Series webinar “The Lung Health Implications of Cannabis Smoking,” moderated by Dr Russell Kamer, MD, FACP, has added the...
Different Contexts, Common Aspirations: What Young People Are Already Telling Us about Prevention
Today marks International Youth Day 2026, observed each year on 12 August. This year the United Nations has themed the day Different Contexts, Common Aspirations. According to the Division for Inclusive Social Development at UN DESA, different national and local realities shape young people’s lives around the world. Yet their aspirations remain remarkably similar, spanning dignity, opportunity, meaningful participation, decent...
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Three Years On, Australia’s Cannabis Medicine Experiment Keeps Causing Harm
Three years of official monitoring data deliver an uncomfortable verdict. Medicinal cannabis harm in Australia keeps rising. The system that created it shows no sign of slowing down. Between mid 2022 and mid 2025, the Therapeutic Goods Administration logged 614 adverse event reports linked to medicinal cannabis. Half involved category 5 products. These are the high strength dried flower and...
Nicotine and Cannabis Are Now the Closest Pair in Teen Substance Use, Study Finds
For decades, the assumed teenage vice kit came in three predictable pieces: alcohol, cigarettes and cannabis, usually tried in roughly that order. A new look at one of America’s largest ongoing studies of youth development suggests that old order has quietly been reshuffled by shifting adolescent vaping trends. The tightest bond between substances is no longer built around a can...
Family Or Friends? New Research Reveals Who Really Helps Recovery Housing Residents Thrive
Recovering from addiction rarely happens in isolation. A substantial new study of more than 600 people living in Oxford House recovery homes has shown, in striking detail, how the people around someone shape their journey forward. The research suggests that social support in recovery works differently depending on where it comes from, and the findings could reshape how recovery housing...
Real Rest vs Bed Rotting: A Resilience Building Guide
Rest has an image problem right now. On one side, people are told to slow down, protect their energy and stop glorifying busyness. On the other, a full day spent under the covers scrolling, known online as bed rotting, has quietly become shorthand for self care. The trouble is, these two things are not the same, and mixing them up...
Bradford to Host UK Recovery Walk 2026 in Celebration of Recovery and Community
Bradford is preparing to host the UK Recovery Walk 2026. The national event brings the recovery community together every year. The UK Recovery Walk 2026 takes place on Saturday 12 September 2026. It begins at 12 noon from the Recovery Village in Centenary Square. A route follows, taking in some of the city’s most iconic landmarks. The event is organised...
Drug Related Hospitalisations Surge Across Australia While Prevention Lags Behind
Australia recorded its steepest rise in drug related hospitalisations in almost a decade during 2023 to 2024. New figures from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at UNSW Sydney show hospital admissions linked to illicit drugs, prescription medicines and other substances climbed 10.5 percent on the previous year. That growth was more than double the rise seen across all...
Italy Chooses Recovery Over Prison for Addicted Inmates
Italy’s parliament has taken a significant step away from pure punishment and towards addiction recovery, passing a law that allows thousands of prisoners struggling with drug or alcohol dependency to serve their sentences at home while completing supervised treatment programmes. The legislation, approved on Wednesday, marks one of the most notable shifts in Italian justice policy in years, prioritising rehabilitation...
Former NRL Star Luke Bateman Tells Inquiry Gambling Firms Supplied Him With Cocaine and Alcohol
Former rugby league player turned social media personality Luke Bateman has told a parliamentary inquiry that gambling companies supplied him with cocaine and alcohol during his long battle with gambling addiction, a habit that ultimately cost him close to $1 million. Bateman, now known across TikTok and the BookTok community for his content, appeared before the inquiry on Monday and...
UK-EU Drug Cooperation Deal Signed to Tackle Trafficking and Prevention
The UK and the European Union have formalised a new UK-EU drug cooperation deal, with the Department of Health and Social Care signing a Working Arrangement with the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) on 13 July 2026. The agreement, prepared entirely in English, sets out nine sections covering everything from the scope of cooperation to how disputes will be resolved...
Alcohol and Drug Use Linked to Half of Oxford Student Sexual Assaults
Half of the sexual assaults reported by Oxford students involved a perpetrator who had used drugs or been drinking beforehand. That finding is renewing calls for stronger substance abuse prevention on campus. Universities, researchers argue, cannot keep treating substance use as background noise while focusing solely on managing harm after it happens. A Second Wave of Findings The Our Space...
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