A far larger proportion of prisoners have histories of dependent substance use than the general population.
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New research has analysed the effectiveness of ten Drug Recovery Wings piloted in British prisons.
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With all parties backing the fracking ban apart from the Tories, Scotland will have to secure full devolvement for energy if it is to fully realise its ambitions for renewables
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Labour has recognised young people as survivors of the economic crash, which has helped fuel a surge in support for Labour.
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Biological clocks set the pace for nearly all living things, and Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young – awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – helped us understand how.
Build, build, build.
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Council housing in England has not been built on any kind of scale since the late 1970s.
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There are methods to avoid madness.
Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd star in the ITV drama about an alleged rape.
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People lie because it is more likely to get them what they want.
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There’s a new and growing practice of naming and shaming artists working within the context of gentrification.
Paddy McAlloon, in his more recent guise as a pop eccentric in dress as well as attitude.
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The great eccentric characters of the past have given us great art, literature and music – and they should be welcomed today.
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Working-class men have a reputation for repressing their emotions but a new study suggests that might be changing.
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Some claim that scientists avoid publishing results that go against the consensus on man-made climate change. But this is simply untrue.
Lubaina Himid’s A Fashionable Marriage.
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Turner Prize’s diverse shortlist has made for a coherent and important show.
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Soft robotics could help move us closer to more human-like robots.
Getting organised.
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It’s the first nationwide strike ballot since tough new legal requirements for industrial action were introduced.
Bitterly cold.
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Simply having warmer homes can help prevent avoidable deaths this winter.
Announcement by Nobel committee.
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The technique is helping scientists to look for drugs against the Zika virus.
Blond derision.
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The UK foreign secretary has been talking up the merits of clearing away bodies to build a new Dubai on the Libyan Med.
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Theresa May wants to rapidly increase the supply of affordable homes, but will have to tread carefully on Britain’s talismanic property wealth.
The government has rejected calls for the rollout of the one-stop benefit to be paused.
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The rollout of the new benefit system will not be paused – but it is causing real hardship.
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Her party needed a clear vision for the future but again the PM offered nothing but prevarication.
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He was a true heart breaker.
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How did a man once suspected of dubious far-right sympathies end up on the threshold of a record third term?
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Designed to ease budgetry pressures, households in Scotland on Universal Credit can now opt for a fortnightly payment instead of being paid monthly.
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A mathematician has joined the dots between Alan Turing and chasing cells to find out how skin patterns are formed.
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Gene Roddenberry’s vision has been upheld by diverse casting, but storylines remain within mainstream 20th-century ideas of gender and identity.