Latest Press Releases
Please see below for the latest press releases from Addiction. If you would like any further information on any of the press releases please contact Molly Jarvis.
15 December 2008
Current alcohol and licensing policy could be making things worse for young drinkers
In a new "for debate"piece published in the January issue of ADDICTION, researchers question whether current licensing policies have contributed to arise in the phenomenon of "pre-drinking" amongst young people.
17 October 2008
It doesn’t matter if you still like the smell of other people’s cigarettes after you have stopped!
Research published in the November issue of Addiction has shown that recent ex-smokers who find exposure to other people's cigarette smoke pleasant are not any more likely to relapse than those who find it unpleasant.
15 August 2008
Drug treatment outcomes tool: fit for purpose and delivering world-beating data
The Treatment Outcomes Profile (TOP) - the tool used for monitoring the effectiveness of substance misuse treatment in England - has been assessed by peer-review as fit for purpose, and is published in Addiction this week.
11 August 2008
New study suggests graphic health warning labels on cigarettes may help reduce teen smoking
Graphic health warnings on cigarettes may lower teenagers' intentions to smoke, according to a new study
8 August 2008
If your first cigarette gave you a buzz and you now smoke, a gene may be to blame, study shows
Link between initial smoking pleasure, lifetime smoking habits and variation in nicotine receptor gene found by University of Michigan-led team
16 July 2008
Many US smokers believe nicotine gum and patches to be as damaging as cigarettes
A survey of current and former US smokers has found that a significant number believe nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) such as nicotine gum and patches to be just as harmful as smoking.
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
