Australia’s media regulator is reviewing a rule that lets alcohol companies advertise freely during live sports broadcasts on free-to-air TV, no matter what time of day it airs. Gendered violence researcher and advocate Jess Hill argues that this sports loophole does real harm, and that closing it could reshape how young Australians grow up understanding...
Cancer Prevention Action Week ran through June this year. It carried a blunt message for drinkers across the UK. Most of us still don’t grasp the real link between alcohol and cancer. Decades of research have already settled the science. Public knowledge simply hasn’t caught up. Health experts call that gap a genuine crisis. World...
More than a million Americans have died from drug overdoses since the turn of the century. Synthetic opioids keep claiming lives across the country. Yet one chapter of war on drugs history rarely enters the conversation. It may hold real answers for tackling the modern opioid crisis. A War on Drugs History Nobody Expected Fifty...
Fewer than 70,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2025, the third consecutive annual fall and the longest run of declines in decades. The figure is roughly where it sat in 2019, before the pandemic. The question of why overdose deaths are falling in the US has no single answer, and the answers on...
Cannabis poisoning children is no longer a rare event in New York State. A new report from the New York State Department of Health has found something startling. Emergency department visits linked to cannabis exposure among children aged 0 to 4 have climbed so sharply that cannabis now rivals, and in recent years has overtaken,...
Marijuana myths are everywhere right now. Billboards use candy colours and playful names. Discount cards arrive in the post. Dispensaries occupy prime retail space in city after city. A drug once banned outright now markets itself as gentler than alcohol or opioids. Many people believe that pitch. Surveys show most adults think alcohol or tobacco...
Brain health isn’t something that just happens to you. It’s something you build over time, one choice at a time, through daily resilient mind habits that add up. In fact, most of these habits are simple, practical, and well within your reach. So here are the habits worth building into your routine. Step Away from...
Opioid overdose prevention has never been more urgent. In England and Wales, opioids and opiates were linked to 2,621 drug poisoning deaths in 2024, close to half of all drug poisoning deaths recorded that year, and part of the highest overall total since records began in 1993. Behind every one of those figures is a...
Reaching for a third episode without noticing the time slip away is common enough that most people shrug it off. Few would call it binge watching addiction, yet the pattern deserves that name. A recent WebMD feature on binge watching listed the physical toll of hours spent on the couch, sore eyes, disrupted sleep, a...
There is a version of the psychedelics story that everyone already knows. A veteran who stopped waking up screaming. A cancer patient who made peace with dying. A depressive who, after decades of grey, felt sunlight again. These stories are moving, they are frequently true, and Netflix, bestselling books, presidential press conferences, and a booming...