In 2015, The Department of Health commissioned Public Health England to review what could be expected of drug services in the UK and to...

Finding evidence to support whether AA is effective has been difficult. It is hard to track voluntary attendance across the Fellowship...

I am fascinated by the history of drug and alcohol use. It was a delight to discover this web site that might be of interested to...

There has been considerable confusion about the risks of vaping verses smoking. However, the first long term study has found that vaping...

Perhaps one for the "I-am-really-not-sure-about-this-file" but a trial is going to examine whether high dose ketamine can help people in...

I have always been interested in the idea of social mobility. Recovery from substance abuse and mental health entails the reconstruction...

An interesting hot topic from the Findings research magazine looking at the historical debate on the issue of whether dependent drinkers...

The National Institute of Drug Abuse in the US have produced some interesting patient simulation games to practice Motivational...

I have often written and discussed how young people with weak social attachments are most prone to developing substance misuse problems. ...

Sacred values, those that really matter to us, guide individual and group decisions in life. We rarely trade off these sacred values in...

A new study using fMRI brain scanning has revealed that religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuits in much...

Data source: http://findings.org.uk/PHP/dl.php?file=PHE_34.txt&s=eb National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) have released the...

When discussing the role of genetics in human development, the research I am most often asked about is 'that' fruit fly study. Here are...

A great deal of my recent work in addiction and mental health has been focused on understanding and addressing divergent patterns of drug...

I am a big fan of Prof Dan Gilbert's research on happiness. In what must come to be regarded as a classic paper, he along with Elizabeth...

Emerging research suggests that the same area of the brain that is responsible for empathy is linked to the individual's ability to...

In a new book out by Emeritus Professor Robert Le Vine and his Research Fellow wife Sarah, they examine parenting across different...

Scott Miller has forwarded this interesting study of the use of 'spin' in studies of talking cures effectiveness. Whilst conflicts of...

LSD is making a comeback with a difference. There is a new trend developing for taking low dose LSD among professionals to make them...

Alcohol intoxication is not governed by what you drink. It is governed by what you drink in what time period. This determines your Blood...