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Border Force: don’t let drug smugglers steal your future
Expert officers share top tips to keep young travellers safe this summer holiday season as criminals approach young people to smuggle drugs | Home Office and Border Force, UK
NHS sets up Scotland’s first clinic to treat shocking rise in teen victims of ketamine
Doctors have set up Scotland’s first specialist clinic to treat the alarming numbers of young people who have severely damaged their bodies with ketamine. And with a ‘significant spike’ in teenagers using the dangerous and illegal drug, similar clinics could soon be established throughout the country | Mail Online, UK
Recovery, Work and Housing: Why We Must Join the Dots
Following the publication of Addiction in the UK, a landmark report by The Forward Trust and Crest Advisory, Asi Panditharatna MBE, our Executive Director of Employment Services, explains why recovery, employment and housing are inseparable when supporting people affected by addiction | Forward Trust, UK
Models of care for the management of alcohol use disorder in general hospital settings and transition to the community: a scoping review
[Open access] Early detection of alcohol use disorder (AUD) amongst people admitted to general hospitals offers an opportunity for early intervention and accesses to evidence-based care. However, current operational models for the management of AUD in these settings are poorly defined, limiting the ability to assess their impact on individual patient outcomes, treatment effectiveness, or healthcare system efficiency. This scoping review aims to identify and characterize existing models of AUD management within hospitals | Alcohol and Alcoholism, UK
Family want change in the law around drug driving
The family of a father-of-three who died after being hit by a car have launched a campaign to change the law around drug-related driving offences. Dean Miles, 49, was killed on the A6120 Ring Road in Horsforth, Leeds on 12 May 2022.The driver was over the legal limit for cannabis, but no charges were brought against him | BBC, UK
Why Ending Rough Sleeping Matters for Recovery
Andy Burnham's pledge to end rough sleeping across the UK has reignited an important conversation about homelessness and housing. While housing is often discussed as a social issue, our recent Footprints surveys suggest it should also be recognised as a recovery issue. For people seeking to overcome drug or alcohol problems, stable housing is often the foundation upon which recovery is built | Phoenix Futures, UK
Study links prenatal opioid exposure to long-term challenges in children’s vision and behaviour
Children exposed to opioids before birth may face increased risks of difficulties with vision, attention, behaviour and learning during their school years, according to a new study | University of Glasgow, UK
Business rates to be cut by 20% for pubs, clubs and music venues in England
Burnham says relief for vape shops and other ‘non-positive’ businesses to be reviewed as part of £100m plan to fund cut | Guardian, UK
Medicinal cannabis linked to fall in drug arrests [Jersey]
Fewer people are being charged with drug offences because islanders can now get medicinal cannabis legally, the police have said | BBC, UK
Cuckooing: How Drug Dealers Are Occupying UK Homes
In the UK, the practice of “cuckooing” has become increasingly prominent, particularly through its highly mediatised connection to county-line drug cases, where drug sellers sell substances across wide regions. Cuckooing refers to when a home or property becomes occupied by people selling or producing drugs. Despite cuckooing happening since at least the 2010s – if not earlier – attention on it has recently spiked: a Freedom of Information request by the BBC showed that police investigations into cuckooing in London alone nearly tripled from 2023/24 to 2025/26 | Talking Drugs, UK
Aberdeen granted permanent alcohol licence
Aberdeen Football Club has been granted a permanent alcohol licence by the city council for matches at Pittodrie. They participated in two alcohol trials last season and a permanent licence - the first for a Scottish Premiership club - has now been granted for the Richard Donald Stand Lower concourse area. Alcohol was banned in Scottish football stadiums since 1981 until the trials | BBC, UK