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Nearly 10,000 people died from alcohol in 2021.
In 2001, the average age of death from a volatile substance was 28. By 2020, it had risen to 46.
A freedom of information request is only useful if you know how to read the data.
As the deadline looms, it’s important to understand how best to fill out the survey – and why.
Who can see your information and why is it important to take part?
The Office for National Statistics reports the highest drug deaths since records began in 1993.
Answering this is not as straightforward as you might think. But a careful analysis of the data suggests the news is not great.
Being out of work is hard: here’s how psychology is helping to make the process of finding a job a little easier.
There are proven ways to reduce drug deaths in the UK. But the government is ignoring them.
You think you’re receiving tablets of stone, but really they’re more like custard.
No democratic government should be able to manipulate the public by getting a sneak peek at the data.
Well-being is a subjective notion – but that doesn’t mean it can’t be quantified.
Around 15,000 Parisians died in the August 2003 heatwave. So what lessons have been learned?
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor in Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of Public Engagement, University of Kent
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Senior Research Fellow in the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in Geospatial Analysis, UCL
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Professor of the Practice of Data Science, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of Public Policy, King's College London
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Associate Member of the Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Middlesex University, Middlesex University
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Senior Visiting Fellow, King's College London
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Research Fellowship, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Quantitative Social Geography, University of Bristol
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Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, University of East Anglia
