Recommendations for alcohol and other drugs from Professor David Best of Derby University based on evidence he outlined at yesterday's NHS Addictions Provider Alliance conference: Get specialist help if you need it, including to deal with any trauma or long-term psychological health problemsYou … [Read more...] about Six recovery recommendations
Discussion: The international problem tackling mental health and alcohol issues together
A recent piece highlighting the difficulty of getting help when we have both mental health and alcohol or other substance use problems attracted insight with sources spanning from Glasgow to Tauranga. Below is a lightly-edited selection. “I'd say this isn’t ‘becoming’ the norm, I heard this in … [Read more...] about Discussion: The international problem tackling mental health and alcohol issues together
Enhance your alcohol intuition
Remoulding our intuitions about alcohol can deliver an enriched experience requiring less effort. Over time we can shape our unconscious as well conscious thoughts, allowing us to start to align our intuitive ideas about alcohol with scientifically establish facts. Replacing our existing … [Read more...] about Enhance your alcohol intuition
Alcohol education is essential
Knowledge is necessary to inspire, shape and sustain positive change, with its dissemination providing the conditions for this change to occur. Alcohol is no exception. We cannot require anyone to learn about alcohol, no more than we can require them to learn about physics or the Brontë sisters, … [Read more...] about Alcohol education is essential
All washed up in Manchester and the Midwest
Covid has put a cruel kaibosh on hospitality businesses. Life looks bleaker without it and, in the past, it gave me some formative experiences of life and work on both sides of the Atlantic. I grew up 30 yards from a pub in suburban south Manchester. This was no cosy affair in which to take a … [Read more...] about All washed up in Manchester and the Midwest
How much alcohol are we really drinking post-covid?
Data from mid-July showed a total volume of 1.3bn litres of alcoholic drinks were bought in shops in the first 17 weeks of lockdown, compared to 2bn litres in the same period the previous year. This is a 35% fall in the total volumes of alcoholic drink bought compared to last year. But this may … [Read more...] about How much alcohol are we really drinking post-covid?