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UK news
How to stop smoking and stay stopped
This booklet is for smokers who are seriously thinking about stopping smoking. Reading this booklet will help smokers decide if they are ready to stop and then how to go about it | Public Health Scotland, UK
WithYou encourages early intervention with Darlington schools to protect young people from drug harm
WithYou in Darlington at STRIDE is highlighting the importance of early support and prevention, as new national figures show the North East has the highest rate of young people in drug and alcohol treatment in England | WithYou, UK
Drug and alcohol treatment service contract renewed with £11m over five years
Change, Grow, Live will continue to provide the services for Stockton Council under a contract approved by the authority's cabinet. It currently supports over 1,700 adults and about 50 children and young people, with numbers rising by 14% for adults and 59% for children and young people since 2020 | Teeside Live, UK
Help for those with drug and alcohol dependency in Devon
Devon County Council has confirmed plans to award a new, up to three-year contract to Waythrough, the current provider of adult drug and alcohol treatment and recovery services | Exmouth Journal, UK
Ban on junk food and vape adverts proposed
A clampdown on junk food, sugary drinks and vapes advertising is being considered across the whole Liverpool City Region | BBC, UK
Rising drug use and deterioration at prison
A report into HMP Birmingham, published on Monday by HM Inspectorate of Prisons, found that drones were being used to get large quantities of drugs and contraband into the prison | BBC, UK
Fans may be allowed to buy alcohol at Scotland game
The Scottish FA have confirmed the trial could take place during one of the national team friendly matches in March or June, prior to the World Cup | BBC, UK
Call for Abstracts: 2026 Alcohol Occasionals
The deadline for proposal submissions is Friday 30th January 2026. Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) invite researchers to submit their research proposals for the 2026 SHAAP/SARN Alcohol Occasionals webinar series. We are interested to hear from researchers from any discipline who wish to share their research relating to alcohol | SHAAP, UK
Nurse struck off for taking drugs with patient
The panel found Anderson's actions to be "fundamentally incompatible" with her remaining on the nursing register and enforced a striking-off order | BBC, UK
International news
Communitas – Psychedelics and the Healing Power of Community – In Conversation with Leor Roseman, PhD
Leor Roseman is a psychedelic researcher whose work explores both the individual and collective dimensions of psychedelic experience — from DMT interruption studies to intergroup healing in the Israeli-Palestinian context. In this interview, we discuss how psychedelics may open space not only for personal transformation, but also for collective reconciliation | Drug Reporter, Hungary
CCENDU Issue 7: Stimulant Use and Related Harms in Canada: Recent Trends
This report features a regional breakdown of reports from seven Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) nodes and five drug checking services from across the country. It focuses on data for stimulant use (primarily cocaine and methamphetamine) and related harms, and includes data from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Statistics Canada, Health Canada’s Drug Analysis Service and National Wastewater Drug Surveillance | CCSA, Canada
New phase of ‘Give Up For Good’ campaign launches to help Australians quit smoking and vaping
The Australian Government has launched a new phase of the ‘Give Up For Good’ campaign, providing new resources and support for Australians looking to break the cycle of nicotine addiction and quit smoking and vaping | Australian Government, Australia
Blogs, comment and opinion
Cocaethylene – a personal account and commentary
In 2023, the potentially catastrophic consequences of mixing alcohol and cocaine became very real to me, when I made this error myself. Amongst other historically well documented, near universally known dangers of alcohol and cocaine as individual substances, knowledge of the effect they have when combined is much less common | Drug Science blog, UK