A police diversion scheme launched in Poulsbo, Washington is aiming to catch addiction and homelessness related offending early. The goal is to stop it becoming a repeating pattern. Instead of an arrest, people can be offered a route into treatment. Five months into the trial, local police say the early intervention is proving worthwhile enough...
New research suggests that childhood trauma carried by fathers long before their own children were even born may still be shaping how those children behave today. A study tracking hundreds of American families has found that children of fathers who experienced adversity growing up are noticeably more likely to show behaviour problems in their early...
San Francisco housed 16,000 chronically homeless people. The most expensive city on the planet, housing 16,000 people in permanent supportive housing. And 25% of all overdose deaths in the city happened inside that housing. That’s the San Francisco drug policy failure in a single statistic. On this episode of the Unnecessary Harm Podcast, I spoke...
More than 5122 Victorians are currently sitting on a drug and alcohol treatment waitlist, according to new figures released by the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association. Victorian Greens say the number has more than doubled since 2020. They have accused the Allan Labor Government of leaving people in crisis without proper support. These figures paint...
Work has begun on a new addiction treatment facility in Nottingham. Delamere, which launched its first site in Cheshire in 2020, is now moving to a second location at the former Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service headquarters in Bestwood. A breaking ground ceremony took place on 22 June 2026, and doors are expected to open...
For decades, people recovering from addiction supported each other freely. They met in fellowship groups, ran recovery community centres and built informal networks from shared experience. Now a fierce debate is splitting the addiction field. Has that spirit of mutual aid quietly turned into something more transactional? Critics describe a regulated, funded and credentialed peer...
San Juan night safety has become an increasingly important topic for hospitals across Spain. Emergency departments brace every year for one of the busiest nights of the summer calendar. Bonfires, fireworks and late gatherings define the celebration. As a result, doctors warn that burns, falls and alcohol related incidents remain among the most common reasons...
Street benzodiazepines pose a greater and more persistent threat to people in drug treatment than prescribed versions. A landmark Scottish study, published in the International Journal of Drug Policy in June 2026, reached this conclusion after tracking more than 40,000 people receiving opioid agonist treatment (OAT) across Scotland between 2015 and 2020. People who reported...
Abstract Background. Cannabidiol (CBD) now dominates consumer health markets worldwide. Manufacturers market it predominantly on the basis of perceived safety. However, CBD carcinogenicity FDA evidence, generated during the pharmaceutical approval process for purified CBD (Epidiolex, GW Research Ltd, NDA 210365), raises substantive concerns that regulators have not communicated to the public, prescribers, or policymakers. Evidence...
When journalist Camilla Tominey sits down with Aaron Bastani of left-wing outlet Novara Media for a Sunday Showdown debate, the conversation quickly turns to addiction benefits reform and whether PIP payments are helping vulnerable people or quietly making things worse. It is a quieter moment, drawn from personal grief, that cuts closest to the bone....