In our latest blog, Beth Meadows discusses her research into LGBTQIA+ communities and alcohol-free nightlife spaces and explores the potential for these spaces as well as the barriers they may face. L...

Leading Scottish health professionals call for ‘reimagining’ of healthcare

Summaries of 35 blog posts which convey the magic happening at North Wales Recovery Communities, describing how the initiative developed, what it involves, impact on the wider community, and involving...

Published in Addiction Research & Theory (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Madeira has a chronic drug problem the authorities are struggling to cope with.

Wrexham Talks Research Presents Academi Heddwch Cyrmu and Professor Colin McInnes

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Join us online for the first seminar of the 2025 series, delivered by Dr Carly Lightowlers.

Despite approximately half of the population experiencing menstrual cycles, little is known about experiences of fluctuations in mood and behavior relating to alcohol use. Literature has investigat...

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Break in cross-party consensus on issue to be announced on Tuesday

I was terrified when I moved into Penryhn House. I had such low self-esteem and all my insecurities surfaced. I arrived with all my possessions in one holdall bag, which I didn’t unpack for two weeks....

Wales introduced a minimum price for alcohol in 2020 and a recent review shows it has reduced the availability of cheap high-strength drinks.

This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction. As well as presenting the case for seeing addiction as a brain disease,

There is a resonance through our conversation and David’s work that what recovery does at its heart is to transform. It does this through contagion, i.e. it spreads from one person to another, from on...

<em>Addiction</em> is an SSA journal publishing peer-reviewed research reports on pharmalogical and behavioural addictions spanning many different disciplines.

A High Court rejects a legal challenge to the plans, which would see a tap room installed in Lidl's Dundonald store.

When you share your story, and listen to other people’s stories, you realise that they have part of your story in theirs, and vice versa. This helps you identify with, and connect to, these other peop...

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Staff at the new safer drug consumption facility in Glasgow have been praised following an encouraging first week.

The study is one part of a suite of four evaluation studies commissioned by the Welsh Government to assess the process and impact of the introduction of MPA in Wales, with the other three studies bein...