alcohol

This webinar is for teachers, school staff, parents and others who are interested in understanding the effect of drugs on adolescent brain. It explores the development of adolescent brain and how this process is interrupted by the use of...

GETTING THE (TREATMENT) SYSTEM RIGHT Key research on improving local alcohol treatment systems, mechanisms for establishing recovery-generating care with diminished resources. Starts with what has become seen as the ‘bible’ of recovery...

The aim of this paper is to analyse changes in alcohol consumption since the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that the frequency of alcohol consumption during COVID-19 is slightly higher for males than it was 2-3 years previously...

Applications are now invited for Alcohol Change UK's New Horizons grants programme for innovative and future-facing academic research on 'Groups, Communities and Alcohol Harm'. The new grants programme will fund up to four research projects...

Introducción: Se conoce una práctica del consumo generalizada de alcohol en adolescentes, aunque no el patrón o tipo de consumo más representativo. Objetivo: Identificar por sexo los niveles y los patrones de consumo de alcohol en una...

WHY IS THE ALCOHOL CASELOAD SHRINKING? The steady decline since 2013/14 in England’s alcohol treatment caseload has worried Public Health England among others. Is it because need for treatment is declining too, or have austerity-driven...

DO WE KNOW HOW TO *MAKE* A SERVICE ENGAGING AND EFFECTIVE? Focus is on the section of last week’s matrix cell release which moved on from *describing* effective treatment services to *generating* such services, along the way encountering an...

The purpose of this study is to benchmark alcohol and cannabis consumption during the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as drivers of behaviour. This report highlights the results of a Nanos poll commissioned by CCSA during the COVID-19 pandemic...

HOW MANY DRINKERS SHOULD BE IN TREATMENT? What proportion of England’s problem drinkers are in treatment, how far does that fall short of the number who *should* be – and how do we judge ‘should’? Depending on where you draw the line...