Lockdown has had a big impact on everyone but especially those who are in receipt of opiate prescribing treatments. Daily administration and prescription man...

A great word I heard recently was anticipointment. This when you find that something you thought would be great turns out to be rubbish. Recovery may come...

Recent advances in neuroscience are unlocking how the major personality traits are linked to neural systems. One personality trait, Neuroticism, is linked t...

Spirituality has increasing become an important focus in drug and alcohol recovery. Whilst hard to define and quantify from a research perspective, a number...

Throughout 2019, Developing Health & Independence (DHI), have been marking their 20th anniversary as a charity by looking to the future. Through articles, ev...

Rehabs are often believed to ineffective or only as effective as community based treatments. There are a lot of myths about rehabs and therefore the dissemi...

Progress are a consortium of consultant nurses who established a professional forum in supporting practitioners and services users experiencing Dual Diagnosi...

The needs of trans gendered populations are rarely explored in the wider research base on addictions. Findings have produced a great review of the research,...

More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States. In other parts of the world, cannabis use has become almost as regular as tobacco use amo...

I remain ambivalent about drug laws. So the emergence of "legal highs" or "new psychoactive substances" as they are now called has provided an interesting r...

In my first book-Drug Induced- I demonstrated that opiate overdose was rarely ever linked to drug purity. Reviewing research and mechanisms of overdose, I s...

New research from an international team led by Oxford University's Department of Zoology and the National-Kapodistrian University of Athens, published today ...

In lectures on adolescent development I always draw peoples attention to the additional risk of drug and alcohol involvement faced by young women who hit pub...

In lectures on drug and alcohol use I often state that the experience of intoxication in not purely pharmacological. Whilst drug and alcohol influence the b...

A new review published online today in the journal Addiction has compiled the best, most up-to-date source of information on alcohol, tobacco, and illicit dr...

McLellen et al 1985 research study on the power of the alliance in the treatment of clients of methadone scripts changed my view of drug treatment and what r...

An excellent review of the historical developments in cannabis markets, leading to the current practices of smoking synthetic cannabis is described in the ex...

There is a great deal of confusion between "Stepping Stone Theory" and "Gateway Theory" in terms of understanding the evolution of drug and alcohol use acros...

More evidence emerges to support the use of trajectory models with young people. Research by Professor Patrica Conrod targeted young people at risk of early ...

I am a huge fan of Prof David Orlinsky's work. He has conducted extensive research on treatment processes and outcomes and his work on how psychotherapists ...