mortality

Mortality among a Cohort of Heavy Drinkers in Edinburgh & Glasgow

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A new report on alcohol-related deaths amongst heavy drinkers in Edinburgh and Glasgow has been released by SHAAP based on research funded by Alcohol Research UK and the Chief Scientist Office (Scotland). The project explored the effects of...

Mortality Risk During and After Opioid Substitution Treatment

Scientific article

17 March 2017

ABSTRACT Objective To compare the risk for all cause and overdose mortality in people with opioid dependence during and after substitution treatment with methadone or buprenorphine and to characterise trends in risk of mortality after...

Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care across Europe

Scientific article

24 August 2016

Background Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due to...

Overdose Antidote Takes Harm-Reduction Centre Stage

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27 March 2017

One of our selection of hot topics, analyses of important issues which sometimes generate heated debate. Programmes distributing the opiate overdose antidote naloxone have become the great new hope for curbing the rise in drug-related...

Reducing Opioid-Related Deaths in the UK

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1 December 2016

Robust messages for the government from the UK’s official drug policy advisers: Ageing profile of multiply-ill heroin users will continue to press up drug-related deaths. To counteract this pressure government must maintain investment in...