Prevention experts have shared reflections that carry real weight for anyone involved in college prevention today. Indeed, their insights come from many years of combined experience. They touch on relationships, resources, culture and community. Overall, the guidance offers a practical map for people supporting healthier student populations. Universities everywhere continue to invest in college prevention...
Teenage psychosis cases are rising sharply across parts of England, and one NHS psychiatrist points directly to spice-laced vapes as the likely cause. Dr Hilary Reed works in the north of England. She treated one or two psychosis cases a year for most of her career. In 2025, that number jumped to ten. She spoke...
Europe is facing a sharp rise in cocaine related violence. That’s the warning from experts who gathered for a recent European Union Drugs Agency webinar. The focus was on how criminal networks fight for control of the continent’s booming narcotics trade. Why Old Definitions of Cocaine Related Violence no Longer Fit The session looked at...
A New York Times podcast on the global drug crisis raises urgent concerns, but leaves the most important questions unasked. There is something almost cinematic about the way The New York Times framed its recent investigation into the synthetic drugs crisis. A mysterious death in a Chicago jail. A criminal investigator who says “keister” instead...
A major new study has found striking results around GLP-1 addiction risk. People taking drugs like Ozempic face substantially lower odds of developing alcohol, opioid, nicotine and cocaine dependence. These findings raise serious questions about what weight loss drugs are actually doing inside the brain. Pharmacologists Tadesse Abegaz and Gabriel Frietze at the University of...
A cannabis rescheduling lawsuit filed by a coalition of medical professionals, addiction recovery specialists and a pharmaceutical company is challenging the Trump administration’s decision to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act. Far from a fringe manoeuvre, this marijuana rescheduling legal challenge represents one of the most principled public...
Most public health messaging on alcohol and pregnancy focuses on the mother. Yet new research from Texas A&M University shows that paternal alcohol use before conception may leave lasting biological marks on children. Fathers have far more influence than many people assume. Paternal Alcohol Use Alters Biological Signals in Sperm Dr Michael Golding is a...
Drugs originally developed to manage type 2 diabetes and obesity are attracting growing scientific interest for a very different purpose: treating substance use disorders. Researchers have found that GLP-1 receptor agonists are being investigated across a range of addiction conditions, but studies remain heavily concentrated in alcohol and tobacco use, leaving significant gaps for other...
General anaesthesia has long been described to patients as “going to sleep.” It is a reassuring comparison, and in many respects an understandable one. People close their eyes, lose awareness, and wake up with no memory of what happened in between. But a major new study published in PNAS in May 2026 confirms what researchers...
Collective Trauma and Substance Cravings: The Reflexive Response Nobody Talks About When a national tragedy unfolds, the psychological fallout runs far deeper than grief or anxiety. New research in the Journal of Health Psychology shows that collective trauma and substance cravings are directly linked. Regular tobacco and cannabis users report an immediate spike in the...