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Women using drugs and alcohol can feel stigmatised and shamed when seeking support from professional services, a new study has found.

Study finds women seeking support for drug and alcohol use face stigma and shame.

Policy makers must shed outdated thinking and deploy evidence based interventions The 2021 UK drug strategy, From Harm to Hope , presented an ambitious programme that sought to tackle more than a decade of increases in drug related harm.1 The National Audit Office’s (NAO) recent value for money report identified mixed progress towards the strategy’s objectives,2 with greater numbers of drug workers entering the sector but concerns about local implementation of some actions, the ability of government to evaluate policy impact, and sustainability of strategy actions beyond 2024-25. The NAO a...

Naloxone spray has been successfully used on 11 overdose victims in Cambridgeshire since it was rolled out to police officers. 

EXCLUSIVE: Across Britain, seven out of ten pharmacies are prescribing the heroin substitute methadone, highlight the issue of Britain's secret opioid addiction crisis.