Sobriety tags worn by thousands released from prison or serving community sentences will monitor wearers’ sweat ...
This section of our curriculum guide refers to statement 15.3, Drug and Alcohol Problems, produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). The use of illicit drugs, such as heroin or ...
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Colchester woman honoured with BEM for alchohol addiction awareness
A COLCHESTER woman who spoke to MPs about her alcoholic addiction has been honoured by the King. Angela O’Callaghan, 42, has been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to health and wellbeing in ...
People see alcohol abuse as a more serious problem than drug misuse, according to a report published by the charity Alcohol Concern. The report says just over 58% feel alcohol misuse is the more ...
Between April 2022 and March 2025, a total of 8,925 people died while in contact with treatment services across England, including 4,273 in the year leading up to March alone. The latter figure ...
Four simple questions could reveal if you have a drinking problem, as a study warns death rates from alcohol have soared post-pandemic. Scientists found death rates linked to booze in England ...
It is almost inevitable that at one time or another a senior HR professional will be confronted by the dilemma of what to do about someone in the workplace who has an alcohol dependency problem. It ...
The NHS estimates that just under one in 10 men in the UK and one in 20 women show signs of alcohol dependence, where they aren’t able to function properly without booze. A study by King’s College ...
A GROUP aiming to tackle the “significant” and rising issue of alcohol and drugs misuse in the Abbeyview area of Dunfermline has been given ...
A drinking problem does not always look like vodka for breakfast, total blackouts and an inability to hold down a job. Lots of people might be struggling with alcohol in less obvious ways – and ...
One of the safest predictions you could have made about the way we’d try to cope with Covid-19 is that we’d drink more alcohol. This drug is so embedded in our society and psyche that we don’t think ...
We drink when we are happy, we drink when we are sad, we drink to celebrate, and we drink to cope. Alcohol has become so ...
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