Alcohol industry responsible drinking campaigns have become one of the most effective marketing tools of the past decade. Major drinks brands no longer simply sell products. They want to own the conversation around harm, health guidance, and consumption. With public health budgets stretched thin, they are finding it increasingly easy to do exactly that. This...
The three-question alcohol screening tool known as the AUDIT-C has long been a staple of clinical settings. The World Health Organisation originally developed it for face-to-face primary care consultations, but practitioners now use it far beyond waiting rooms and GP surgeries. A large Finnish study published in Addiction in 2026 raises a question worth sitting...
A prominent voice in addiction recovery has taken his message to the heart of federal power. Tom Wolf leads West Coast initiatives for the Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions. In spring 2026, he attended two high-level White House events. Both focused on addiction treatment and recovery as the answer to America’s drug crisis. Together, they...
Why the Addiction Treatment System Is Failing the People Who Need It Most Across Canada, politicians from every corner of the political spectrum are promising more beds, more facilities, and more investment in addiction treatment. It sounds like progress. But here is the uncomfortable truth that rarely makes it into the headlines: almost nobody is...
Good intentions alone will not protect college students from drug and alcohol misuse. Professionals working in campus drug and alcohol prevention know this well. They are turning to decades of research to guide their efforts. The evidence is clear about what it actually takes to create lasting change. A new webinar series is helping campus...
Doctors and patients are paying closer attention to ADC heart risk as these targeted cancer drugs reach more people with breast cancer. Antibody drug conjugates have changed how oncologists treat several subtypes of the disease. But understanding what they do to the heart matters just as much as understanding what they do to the tumour....
New figures from a nationwide police campaign have put a number to what roads officers have known for some time. Of the 8,000 motorists tested for drugs during a single month, more than half came back positive. Over the same period, just 11% of the 52,000 breath tests carried out for alcohol produced a positive...
Trinity College Dublin is launching free training for addiction workers across Ireland, giving frontline staff new tools to identify and respond to neurodivergent clients before problems deepen. The Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign commissioned the course with support from ADHD Ireland. Research from Citywide found that 21% of people accessing drug and alcohol services in Ireland...
Why Alcohol Testing in Family Proceedings Matters Now Alcohol testing in family proceedings has never been more urgent. More than 478,000 children in England were living with an alcohol or drug dependent parent in 2019/20, according to the Children’s Commissioner for England. Alcohol-specific deaths in the UK hit 10,473 in 2023, the highest number the...
Doctors across the United States are rethinking how addiction treatment in primary care reaches people who need it most, and new research from the University of Cincinnati suggests this shift matters more than ever. According to the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 48.4 million Americans aged 12 and older live with...