Most people are aware that smoking causes cancer. Far fewer know that alcohol and breast cancer risk are just as closely tied. Alcohol ranks alongside cigarettes and obesity as one of the top three preventable causes of cancer in the United States, yet this rarely makes headlines. A 2026 study put the scale of the...
Every family who has lost someone to addiction knows the moment. The phone rings in the middle of the night. A hospital corridor. A police officer at the door. The quiet sentence that rearranges the rest of your life. This week a Freedom of Information release from the Scottish Government opened a small but revealing window into...
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has made history. He is now the first governor in the United States to publicly call for a legal marijuana repeal. His message is already being felt well beyond the Sooner State. In a blunt State of the State address, Stitt declared that legalising medical marijuana in 2018 had opened what...
Alcohol crime in Northern Ireland reached 105,000 offences over the last five years, according to figures from the Department of Justice. The data covers cases where alcohol consumption by the offender, the victim, or both was a recorded aggravating factor. Experts say the numbers demand immediate cross-departmental attention. The region averages more than 20,000 alcohol-linked...
In a recent episode of The Dr. Phil Podcast – Latest from Mexico: Cartels Know No Boundaries, Dr. Phil McGraw said what most political commentary won’t: this is not Mexico’s war. It is America’s – and it is being bankrolled from inside American communities. The United States recorded over 110,000 drug poisoning deaths in a...
What’s up your Butt?? Apparently, it’s… Rectal drug use (“boofing”, “plugging” or “booty bumping” if you like?!?) is sold as a clever hack for a faster high, but it’s basically playing Russian roulette with some of the thinnest, most vulnerable tissue in your body. It can feel cleaner or “safer than injecting”, yet the mix...
Scotland holds a devastating distinction: the worst drug death rate in Europe. Three and a half times higher than equally deprived areas across the border in England. Glasgow alone spends £50 million annually on its ‘treatment’ budget. The result? Twenty-three rehab beds. That’s all recovery gets. The rest maintains people in a system designed merely...
US President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order establishing the Great American Recovery Initiative, marshalling federal resources to tackle the nation’s drug and alcohol addiction crisis. The coordinated effort brings together health, justice, and social services agencies under unified leadership to support prevention, treatment, and long-term recovery. “There’s nothing more important than what we’re...
When alcohol sales started dropping in 2025, the industry didn’t adapt—it doubled down. A new global investigation reveals how multinational alcohol corporations responded to declining consumption and growing cancer awareness not by reforming their practices, but by intensifying their efforts to block health policy, saturate digital spaces, and shift blame away from their products. The...
In a powerful presentation for the IASIC Speaker Series, Dr Yasmin Hurd, Ward Coleman Chair in Translational Neuroscience at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine, delivered compelling evidence on how cannabis exposure during pregnancy and adolescence fundamentally alters brain development. Moreover, her research demonstrates how this exposure increases psychiatric vulnerability across the lifespan. The Complexity...