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Alcohol-related hospital admissions up 9%, doubling over a decade

Saturday, December 10, 2011

The latest data for alcohol-attributable conditions has shown a 9% rise on the previous year, resulting in a doubling over the decade. For 2010/11 the figure is 1,898 alcohol-related admissions per 100,000 population in England, up from 926 admissions per 100,000 in 2002/03.

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The relationship between childhood depressive symptoms and problematic alcohol use in early adolescence: findings from a large longitudinal…

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

ABSTRACT Aims:  Depressive symptomatology can increase risk of development of alcohol problems in young people. Tension reduction and Family Interactional theories may explain the relationship between depression and problematic alcohol use in youth. This study addresses the nature of the longitudinal relationship between these two behaviours

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Average Brit Spends £58,201 ($93,000) On Booze Over A Lifetime And Has 726 Hangovers

Friday, August 19, 2011

Over an average British person’s lifetime, 5,800 pints of beer are consumed, plus 8,700 glasses of wine, 2,900 bottles of cider, 5,808 shots of spirits, 1,452 cocktails, 1,452 glasses of liquor, and 1,452 glasses of champagne – the equivalent of 456 drinks annually. The typical Brit also experiences 726 hangovers over a lifetime…

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Weight Has Strongest Effect On Hormones That Raise Breast Cancer Risk

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Weight has the strongest effect on the sex hormones that increase breast cancer risk in post menopausal women, according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer this week…

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“E-Cigarette or Drug Delivery Device?” : Schroeder Institute Researchers Raise Questions About Safety, Usage and Future Implications of New…

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Devices marketed as “electronic cigarettes” are in reality crude drug delivery systems for refined nicotine, posing unknown risks with little new benefits to smokers, according to tobacco control experts. In a “Perspective” published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Legacy’s Steven A.

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‘Nudge alone is not enough’ says Lords Committee report as BBPA reveal Responsibility Deal unit campaign

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

A Lords Select Committee report on behaviour change was released today, stating 'nudge' approaches alone are not sufficient for achieving population level public health improvements.

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Misuse Of Epilepsy Drug Phenazepam In The UK

Monday, July 11, 2011

In a letter published in this week’s British Medical Journal (BMJ), it has stated that a drug used in the treatment of neurological diseases like epilepsy and anxiety is being misused by youth in the UK.

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Explaining drug policy: Towards an historical sociology of policy change

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Abstract: The goal of seeking to understand the development over time of drug policies is a specific version of the more general intellectual project of finding ways of explaining social change. The latter has been a preoccupation of some of the greatest thinkers within the social sciences of the last 200 years, from Foucault all the way back to the three nineteenth-century pioneers, Marx, Durkheim and Weber

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Early Cannabis Use Associated With Poor Brain Function, UK

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Regular cannabis users who start using the drug before the age of 15 perform worse on brain tests than those who start later, according to new research published in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers from the Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo say their study suggests that early cannabis use may have more harmful effects on people’s cognitive functioning…

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Pursuit of a safer cigarette gathers pace

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

When Sir Terry Leahy first heard about a small British start-up called Kind Consumer he felt sure he had found a gap in the market. Here was a company with a very big idea – a safe way to get smokers their nicotine fix – that was struggling to win backers in the venture capital community. Sir Terry says: “It may be a weakness in the [VC] investment model: if people are looking for three-year pay-backs, that’s not appropriate for really big ideas.” The former Tesco chief decided to make it one of his first private investments in retirement.

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