During the lockdown there is undoubted escalation in drinking. This may bring the use of online digital treatments to the fore. At present, online interven...

A new study finds that interventions that take a multidimensional approach -- tackling the biological, social, environmental and mental health obstacles to o...

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...

What drives a person to smoke cigarettes? What role do emotions play in this addictive behavior? Why do some smokers puff more often and more deeply or even ...

The ODHIN Trials are a large scale study exploring the effectiveness of brief interventions in primary care for alcohol problems. As alcohol is increasingly...

Alcohol is not the disinhibitor that people assume it is. Alcohol changes your perception of time- where once you start to drink, you operate in much more o...

It is a common statement regarding substitute opiate prescribing. But sometimes in hospital settings alcohol dependent individuals are prescribed alcohol. ...

A big thanks to my friend and colleague Colin Mackell for forwarding me this interesting article. In it the fantastic Prof Nick Heather reflects on definiti...

Research finds that people with substance-use problems who read a message describing addiction as a disease are less likely to report wanting to engage in ef...

One in five people in England have been harmed in some way by others' drinking over the past year, suggest the results of the largest survey of its kind in t...

Alcohol Change UK have launched their new alcohol research hub. For great information and resources on alcohol visit the site by clicking here.

A great privilege of running this blog is to share some of the work of practitioners who have inspired me but whose work is not often as well known as it sho...

Alcohol abuse is more complicated than simply drinking too much. There may be five separate types of problem drinkers, according to Penn State researchers, a...

Whilst people in the LGBTQ community show elevated levels of mental health, studies of substance misuse interventions within these populations is surprisingl...

Alcohol consumption increases in both the young old, who sense of meaning changes upon retirement, and the old old, who battle with isolation. They are some...

Binge drinking patterns are one of the hardest drinking habits to break, especially in young people and students.Researchers found the secret to getting coll...

Fatemeh Akhlaghi, the Ernest Mario Distinguished Chair in Pharmaceutics, is part of a team working to develop a novel medication to treat alcohol use disorde...

I have always been skeptical of primary genetic addiction models. The idea that disorders such as alcoholism was driven by gene actions was simply not suppo...

People are often surprised when I cite studies that show that non-drinkers have a lower life expectancy than those who drink alcohol. An interesting review ...

As I discussed in an earlier post, drug and alcohol problems are linked to six centers in the brain, particularly memory. Interesting this has become a site ...