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addiction, alcohol, alcohol use disclosure, alcohol use disorder, AUDIT, Drinker Inventory of Consequences, emergency department, global mental health, healthcare screening, injury patients, Moshi, perceived alcohol stigma, Psychiatry, Psychology, substance use, TanzaniaAlcohol Use Disclosure in Tanzania: 10.6% Told Providers
A 2026 cross-sectional study in Moshi, Tanzania found that only 26 of…
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addiction, adolescents, alcohol, Cannabis, Drugs, meta-analysis, prevalence, Prevention, public-health, South Africa, substance use, tobaccoTeen Substance Use in South Africa: 30-Study Meta-Analysis
A 2026 PRISMA-compliant systematic review and meta-analysis in Drug and Alcohol Review…
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Alcohol reduced my anxiety – but at a cost | Letter
I read your article (Welcome to Anxietyland: I used alcohol to hide…
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alcohol, Anxiety, Bristol, Fertility problems, Health, Housing, men, Mental health, Politics, sleep, UK newsComing across a terrible dilemma | Brief letters
I was struck by two adjacent headlines: “More frequent ejaculations may boost…
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addiction, alcohol, alcohol use disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, crime, depression, Editor Laura Hemming, epilepsy, female prisoners, global mental health, global statistics, health inequalities, hepatitis, HIV, male prisoners, meta-analysis, personality disorders, prevalence, prison, prison health, prisoners, prisons, psychosis, PTSD, substance misuse, substance use disorder, The Lancet Public Health, topical, umbrella review, women’s mental healthPeople in prison face disproportionate mental and physical illness
Prisons are important public-health settings: housing an estimated 11.5 million people worldwide…
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addiction, alcohol, alcohol abuse, childhood adversity, childhood trauma, crime, criminal activity, criminal justice, criminal justice system, domestic abuse, domestic violence, Editor Laura Hemming, health inequalities, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, knife crime, longitudinal, millenium cohort study, Millennium Cohort Study, observational study, parental addiction, parental mental health, parenting, police involvement, poverty, socio-economic deprivation, socio-economic inequalities, substance misuse, trauma, violence, vulnerable people, weapon carryingPersistent poverty and adversity drives youth weapon-carrying and police contact
Childhood adversity is widely understood to increase a person’s risk of poor…
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addiction, alcohol, alcohol addiction, alcohol consumption, alcohol dependence, alcohol intake, alcoholism, bilateral superior frontal gyrus, Brain, brain structure, brain volume, cognition, cognitive decline, cognitive function, cortical thickness, drinking, Drugs, effects of alcohol, elderly, frontal lobe, gray matter, heavy drinking, older adults, prefrontal cortex, right lateral occipital cortex, right precentral gyrus, side effects, subcortical volume, Sweden, white matterAlcohol & Brain Volume in Older Adults: Cortical Thinning & White Matter Loss in Heavy Drinkers (250g/Week) (2023 Study)
Alcohol’s effects on the brain, especially among the elderly, have long been…
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When Not to Arrest an Abuser in a Domestic Violence Case
Almost half the the states in America have mandatory arrest provisions in…
