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Weekly news - 3rd January 2025 |
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Guidance: Medicine choices in opioid substitution treatment
Recommendations for prescribing methadone and buprenorphine to people in treatment for opioid dependence in England | DHSC, UK
Guidance: Local stop smoking services and support: funding for 2025 to 2026
Information about the additional funding of £70 million to local authorities in England for stop smoking services and support in 2025 to 2026 | DHSC, UK
Press release: Quit for a week and save a day, say health experts
Smokers who choose to quit on 1 January could save a whole day of their life by 8 January, according to new research | DHSC, UK
Quitting smoking may be easier with a smartwatch app, researchers say
Motion-sensor software sent alerts to prevent lighting up at most vulnerable moments for those trying to quit | Guardian, UK
Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds
Figure is nearly double an estimate from 2000 and means a pack of 20 cigarettes costs a person seven hours on average | Guardian, UK
Dry January - Who's the Boss. You are!
Double your chances of having a totally alcohol-free month with the free Try Dry® app for a total body and mind reset. From better sleep and a mental health boost, to saving money and time - there's a whole lot to gain from the Dry January® challenge | Alcohol Change, UK
UK teenage girls outdrink boys by widest margin in Europe, study finds
Teenage girls are outdrinking their male peers in the UK at a greater rate than in any other European country, according to research. More than a third of 15-year-old girls in the UK report getting repeatedly drunk, compared with less than a quarter of boys the same age, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found | Guardian, UK
A proof-of-concept analysis of data from the first NHS clinic for young adults with comorbid cannabis use and psychotic disorders
[Open access] Patients completing treatment at Britain’s only clinic for psychosis combined with cannabis use disorders made dramatic reductions in their cannabis use and associated improvements in mental health | Cambridge University Press, UK
Calls for rehabilitation courses as thousands have been caught drug-driving more than four times
More than 33 thousand British drivers have been caught drug-driving multiple times, with ministers urged to consider rehabilitation courses to reduce reoffending | LBC News, UK
Guidance: Recovery support services and lived experience initiatives
Updated alcohol and drug treatment data for 2023 to 2024 in 2 places: ‘Part 1: introducing recovery, peer support and lived experience initiatives’; and ‘Part 2: recovery support services - evidence and current provision’ | OHID, UK
Figures reveal 1,500 drug-addicted babies born in Scotland since 2017
Lib Dems warn first minister that party could withdraw support if government does not boost funding for issue | Guardian, UK
Changing public perceptions of alcohol, alcohol harms and alcohol policies: A multi-methods study to develop novel framing approaches
Commissioned by Alcohol Change UK, researchers identified the “stark gap between public and expert views of alcohol and alcohol-related harms”, with the UK public focusing on the positives of drinking and individual weakness as a cause of harm, while experts saw alcohol as inherently risky | Addiction, UK