Baby boomers are risking their health due to excessive and regular drinking, health experts have warned. New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for England shows that people
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A new wave of drug fuelled student super-parties held in houses could lead to a “perfect storm” of mass casualties, it has been warned. Organised through social media and often
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Rebecca Evans, Minister for Social Services and Public Health, has announced appointments to the Advisory Panel on Substance Misuse. Richard Ives has been appointed as Chair of the Panel for
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Britain is facing a “secret scandal” over failings in the care of the country’s 2.5 million children of alcoholic parents, a group of MPs and peers have warned. The all-parliamentary
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Calls are being made to a charity helpline every hour by adults concerned about alcohol or drug use around children. Figures from the NSPCC show 8,500 people from across the
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A care home in Holloway, north London, has been rated Inadequate by the Care Quality Commission. St Mungo’s Broadway – 2 Hilldrop Road, has been rated Inadequate overall. It was
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Alcohol Research UK and Alcohol Concern have announced plans to merge the activities of the two charities by April 2017. While both organisations share a clear mission to reduce the
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Health professionals must do more to tackle problem drinking among women, experts have said. Alcohol use and related disorders have historically been “viewed as a male phenomenon”, researchers said. But
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A new initiative has been launched in Northern Ireland to highlight the support that is available for family members who are affected by a loved one’s drinking and/or drug misuse
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According to popular wisdom death is the great leveller, affirming our common humanity whatever our status in life. But our recent study of people bereaved by a drug or alcohol-related
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