The internet is full of misinformation about recreational drugs - both legal and illegal.
Dr Suzi Gage, a psychologist interested in understanding associations between substance use and mental health, tackles one substance per episode -...
This episode focuses on data released ahead of the first anniversary of the Scottish Government's flagship health policy of minimum unit pricing. You might be mistaken in thinking the issue is a simple one – has minimum unit pricing led to...
Episode 32: Tobacco Industry Watchdogs Soundcloud Podcast
The Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products (STOP) competition was launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies at the March 2018 World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Cape Town...
Smoke Signals: what does legalised cannabis mean for mental health?
Chaired by: Ian Hamilton, University of York
Panellists:
To collate prevalence estimates of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) among special subpopulations (defined by service use).
Systematic literature review and meta‐analysis of original, quantitative studies...
The degree to which the relationship between alcohol use and sleeplessness is unidirectional or reciprocal is unclear due to great variation among the results of previous studies. The aim of the present study was to...
In Iran, alcohol consumption, production, and trade are criminalised for Muslim citizens; however, bootleg alcohol and harmful alcohol consumption is a burden that should not be overlooked.
Currently the Iranian Ministry of Health has...
To assist workplaces to respond to alcohol and other drug-related harm in the workplace, The National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, has produced a series of factsheets about commonly used drugs and their impact on safety...
Alcohol taxation holds massive potential for global health, for helping achieve the sustainable development goals and also for significantly contributing to financing health and development.
This infographic, designed by IOGT...
