Frequent binge drinking is a known contributor to alcohol-related harm, but its impact on systemic and hepatic inflammation is not fully understood. We hypothesize that changes in immune markers play a central role in...
The substantial individual heterogeneity that characterizes people with mental illness is often ignored by classical case–control research, which relies on group mean comparisons. Here we present a comprehensive, multiscale...
Smoking of cigarettes among young adolescents is a pressing public health issue. However, the neural mechanisms underlying smoking initiation and sustenance during adolescence, especially the potential causal interactions between...
In the UK, alcohol presents an urgent and growing problem: 70 people die due to alcohol every day. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated this crisis, with alcohol-specific deaths having increased by 27% between 2019 and 2021, reaching...
After exploring the views of women and children, respectively, in Volumes II and III of this series, the fourth volume offers a perspective of how to develop more comprehensive, child-centred approaches in drug policies in general and in...
Durante seu trabalho diário, os socorristas, como policiais, bombeiros e pessoal dos serviços médicos de emergência (EMS), muitas vezes encontram pessoas que usam drogas (PWUD), incluindo álcool, opioides, estimulantes e outras...
Neste blogpost, produzido por acadêmicos da Universidade de Stirling, os autores discutem a campanha See Beyond – See the Lives – Scotland , que envolve as histórias daqueles que ficaram para trás após perder um ente querido para o uso de...
Substance use disorder is common among people in prison worldwide.
This report explores the experiences of males in prison who completed and those who did not complete a group-based drug and alcohol program, to gain insight into their...
