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Public policies should be looking to increase awareness of the link between alcohol and suicide and to assess and treat problematic alcohol use as a way to prevent suicide.
The number of deaths related to alcohol use in the US grew by a staggering 25% between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Storylines warning of the dangers of alcoholism had more of a lasting effect than more formal health education.
When employers treat staff drinking problems as a health issue, they get much better results.
The pressure of needing to be a model minority — successful, quiet, hardworking — can force people to internalize their mental anguish and ends up leaving gaps in our mental health services.
Today’s non-alcoholic drinks are perfectly at home in the wine bar or on the cocktail shelf.
Biden’s relationship with his father contrasts with perhaps every president in the last four decades, who either had absent or distant fathers or abusive or alcoholic fathers or stepfathers.
The story of the alleged Atlanta shooter highlights the two most common ways Americans think about compulsive behaviors – considering them the results of temptation and treating them as diseases.
Can college professors rap their way into academic publishing? One professor makes an album to prove they can.
People with alcohol or substance dependency already struggle to access mental health treatment, covid will only make this worse.
The brain’s immune system cells (called microglia) have already been shown to be involved in addiction to other substances.
We now know how the father of New Zealand’s suffrage pioneer died, and it raises fascinating questions about what drove her morally and politically.
Be careful when returning to the pub. Your alcohol tolerance might’ve changed during lockdown, meaning you could do greater harm to your body.
Experts recommend adopted children be told about their origins, no matter how difficult the circumstances, but doing so is tricky for adoptive parents.
America’s news reports and social media chatter open a window into the nation’s psyche. An AI-based text analysis of these words shows that the coronavirus is driving up familiar social ills.
Sales of alcohol have reported jumped by around a quarter as people bulk buy wine, beers and spirits. That could lead to a range of short-term and long-term problems.
The number of older people who drink heavily is increasing. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Two interventions proved effective in reducing men’s perpetration, but not women’s experiences of violence.
The holidays are not solely about religious observations or societal celebrations, as alcohol has established itself in the festivities. But how much is too much? An addiction specialist examines.
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Professor / Lead Substance use research group, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Visiting Clinical Research Fellow in older people's substance use and mental health, King's College London
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Associate Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychopharmacology and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University
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Reader in Medical Statistics, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Social Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care, Nottingham University Hospital
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Clinical Associate Professor of Hepatology, University of Nottingham
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Emergency Medicine Clinician
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Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Medical Statistics & Epidemiology, University of Oxford
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Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
