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Children and young people's alcohol and drug services: framework
This framework sets out guidance for designing, commissioning and providing alcohol and drug support for children and young people in England | DHSC, UK
Safeguarding children affected by a parent's alcohol or drug use
Updated guidance to reflect current safeguarding policy and programmes. It also focuses more on workforce expectations and ways of working, the effects of stigma and trauma, and pregnancy and the perinatal period. The page also now includes a self-assessment checklist to support commissioners and service providers to assess and improve current performance | DHSC, UK
Preliminary findings show that 1720 people - including 51 children - died while homeless in 2025
Independent research found that deaths rose 6.8% in 2025 vs the previous year. Over 30% of the deaths in 2025 were either on the streets or in rough sleeper’s accommodation. Bristol, Brighton and Hove, Edinburgh, Camden and Stirling had the five highest rates of reported deaths per 100,000 population across the UK. ‘Deaths of Despair’ caused by drugs, alcohol or suicide are the most common (52%). Recovery, harm reduction and mental health services need urgent investment | Museum of Homelessness, UK
Adult smoking habits in the UK: 2025
Around 4.9 million people aged 18 years and over (9.8% of the population) smoked cigarettes in the UK in 2025. This is a decrease from 2024 (10.6%), which follows a long-term downward trend. The proportion of current smokers has fallen by 10.4 percentage points since this data time series began in 2011 (20.2%), based on our estimates from the Annual Population Survey (APS) | ONS, UK
Smoking profile: statistical commentary, October 2026
An overview of the extent of smoking, smoking-attributable harm and the measures being taken to reduce that harm at a local level in England | OHID, UK
Alcohol advertising puts people at risk of relapse say members of recovery community - New Report
People with lived experience of alcohol harm have called for a new approach to alcohol advertising and marketing, saying that its ubiquity acts as a potential trigger that puts them at risk of relapse | Alcohol Focus Scotland, UK
I’ll drink to that - offering alcohol-free beer on tap boosts pub choices while keeping revenues intact, new study shows
Simple changes to pub environments can encourage drinkers to choose alcohol-free options without harming profits, according to new research | University of York, UK
The World Health Organization coca review: A post mortem
For thousands of years, coca has been a cornerstone of the cultural, spiritual, and medicinal traditions of Indigenous Peoples in the Andean-Amazonian region. Coca leaves typically contain between 0.2% and 0.8% cocaine alkaloid, giving chewing the leaves or drinking coca tea a mild stimulant effect comparable to that of coffee | IDPC, UK
UK Drug Trends Intelligence - First edition - October 2026 - What is changing in the UK drug market and what services need to know.
This first edition brings together a national picture at a fixed publication cut-off. The report covers changes in the UK drug market, emerging substances and mixtures, prevalence, serious harms, treatment implications and practical responses. It also considers prices and supply, wastewater intelligence, young people, safeguarding, prisons, housing and sexual health settings | TD Research Lab / TD Consultancy, UK
Wastewater analysis: estimating drug consumption, 2021 to 2026
This report presents the latest findings from the Wastewater Analysis for Narcotics Detection (WAND) programme. It updates the 2021 to 2026 trend analysis for 6 key drugs: cocaine, ketamine, amphetamine, methamphetamine, MDMA, and heroin. The trend analysis is based on samples from 16 English sites monitored consistently since 2021. Cocaine remained the most consumed of the 6 key drugs, while estimated ketamine consumption decreased by 11% between 2025 and 2026 after several years of sustained growth | Home Office, UK
National Mission on Drugs: annual report 2025 to 2026
Sets out the progress made between 1 April 2025 and 31 March 2026 by national government, local government and third sector partners towards reducing drug deaths and improving the lives of those impacted by drugs in Scotland | Scottish Government, UK
Childhood, interrupted: Parental problem alcohol use and its harms to children (PDF)
Parental problem alcohol use (PPAU) is a well-established Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) with profound and enduring consequences for the physical and mental health of children affected – in childhood and into adulthood. Ireland’s high levels of alcohol consumption is closely associated with increased levels of harm as decades of evidence demonstrates that greater consumption leads to greater harm and reduced consumption leads to reduced harm | Alcohol Action Ireland, Ireland