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More than 5,500 excess alcohol-related liver disease deaths have occurred in England since 2020, with many people dying without any hospital admission in their final year of life, raising concerns…

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Background and aims Artificial intelligence (AI) may improve addiction medicine workflows and health outcomes but raises questions about data privacy and unintended harms for people who use drugs (P.....

Expert committees are often called upon to adjudicate which causes of death, injury or illness meet criteria for being caused by alcohol use. We have participated in these discussions, whether under…

Female youth with major depressive episodes reported the highest nicotine vaping use compared to male youth with major depressive episodes and youth withou

The reinforcer pathology model proposed by Warren Bickel and colleagues focuses on within-individual motivational processes involving overvaluation of smaller immediate rewards relative to larger del...

AbstractIntroduction. Surveillance of nicotine/tobacco use typically examines binary use (vs. non-use) of each product in isolation, but this fails to capt

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AbstractIntroduction. Controversy remains regarding whether nicotine vaping products (NVPs) are associated with cigarette cessation in observational resear

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The more attention people pay to alcohol adverts, the more they crave alcohol - and the more they go on to drink. New experimental evidence shows this isn’t just correlation: directing attention to ad...