Latest Press Releases
Please see below for the latest press releases from Addiction. If you wouldlike any further on any of the press releases please contact SusanSavva.
12 June 2008
Claims linking health problems and the strength of cannabis may be exaggerated
Claims that a large increase in the strength of cannabis over the last decade is driving the occurrence of mental health and other problems for users are not borne out by a study of the worldwide literature.
28 May 2008
Childhood tobacco experimentation leading to lifetime addiction
Experimenting with smoking during childhood increases the risk of being a daily smoker twenty years later.
1 May 2008
Drug users can learn how to save lives
Drug users can be taught to identify and quickly respond to overdoses of heroin or other opioids as effectively as medical experts, a Yale University study suggests
25 March 2008
Gay youth report higher rates of drug and alcohol use
The odds of substance use for lesbian, gay and bisexual youth are on average 190 percent higher than for heterosexual youth, according to a recent study.
13 March 2008
Call for all cigarettes to be sold in plain cardboard packs
Cigarettes should be sold in plain, dull cardboard packs, with nothing but the health warning and the brand name allowed, researchers at the University of Sydney’s School of Public Health have argued.
25 February 2008
Step-parents influence teenage smoking behaviour
Smoking by a non-biological parent is as influential as smoking by biological parents in determining whether their teenager smokes, reveal the results of a Cancer Research UK study.
25 January 2008
Prenatal exposure to the 1944-45 Dutch ‘hunger winter’ and addiction later in life
Babies conceived in periods of famine risk developing addictions in adult life
