A major new report has found that people who use drugs across Europe are being routinely denied access to mainstream mental health services, with exclusions based on active drug use, lack of identity documents and unstable housing cutting off care for the most vulnerable. The findings come from the Civil Society Monitoring of Harm Reduction...
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...
A landmark piece of Canadian legislation has cleared the House of Commons with unanimous support. Bill C-240 would give people serving federal prison sentences access to addiction rehabilitation programmes. It now moves to committee for further examination. Kelly DeRidder, the MP for Kitchener Centre, introduced the bill to embed structured rehabilitation into the corrections system....
Alcohol impaired driving crash: One dead and several injured after four-vehicle smash on Honolulu’s Moanalua Road A 24-year-old man has died and multiple people have been hospitalised following a high-speed, multi-vehicle collision on Moanalua Road in Honolulu. Police say speed and alcohol are key contributing factors in this alcohol impaired driving crash. The incident shut...
New research has exposed how ultra-processed food tactics borrowed from the cigarette industry shaped one of America’s most iconic children’s food brands, and why governments can no longer treat tobacco and food as separate problems. A study published in the American Journal of Public Health traces the product development of Lunchables under tobacco giant Philip...
The UK Government has committed up to £10 million to develop the next generation of addiction research leaders. The Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA) will lead this landmark programme focused on drug and alcohol science. The Addiction Healthcare Goals flagship research leadership programme is now open for applications. Funding is available across multiple...
The Debate That Divided the Nation Can two glasses of wine genuinely derail your health for days? That question about the alcohol effects on the body has sparked a full-blown cultural row across British social media. It started with a podcast and ended with celebrities taking sides. Entrepreneur Steven Bartlett, best known from Dragons’ Den,...
Los Angeles has long been ground zero for America’s homelessness epidemic. Spencer Pratt, best known for his time on reality television, sat down with Bill Maher on the Club Random podcast to share his homeless recovery plan. He believes a treatment-first approach can deliver what billions in government spending have so far failed to achieve....
CBD novel food safety concerns are reshaping European markets. Regulators across the continent have moved to restrict cannabidiol food products, and the scientific picture underpinning those decisions is more troubling than the industry has been willing to admit. The colourful shelves of CBD wellness shops lining the streets of Paris, Rome and Athens may soon...