The UK needs an overarching national strategy to tackle alcohol-related harms, argue experts in The BMJ, as deaths from ...

According to recent statistics from alcoholchange.org.uk, a quarter of adults in England and Scotland ... aware of the NHS recommendations to drink no more than 14 units of alcohol a week, spread ...

AN ADDICT has slammed Scotland’s new drug consumption room – insisting he won’t use it despite living next door. Jamie ...

28 29 Scotland’s 2009 alcohol strategy, refreshed in 2018, established national data systems on admissions to hospital for alcohol harm by levels of deprivation, introduced public health measures ...

On August 10, 2017 she drove home from a pub after drinking alcohol, lost control and struck a pedestrian ... Prison officers do not have access to VISION, the NHS recording system where the responses ...

The statistics around alcohol abuse in the UK make for shocking reading: an estimated 10 million people in England (so that's not including Wales, Scotland ... cost to the NHS and wider society ...

FRIDAY saw a visit from First Minister John Swinney and Health Secretary Neil Gray to Scotland’s first “drug consumption rooms”. Ex-SNP ...

Consistent with previous years, the rate of alcohol-specific deaths for males in 2022 remained around double the rate for females (22.3 and 11.1 deaths per 100,000 people, respectively). Scotland and ...

The Drink Less app can be a powerful tool in reducing alcohol consumption and improving public health, a study published in ...

The SNP has been urged to “urgently improve NHS recruitment” after it was revealed there has been over £900 million spent on temporary nurses and consultants since 2019. Scotland’s health b ...