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Police are recording more sexual assaults and family violence against Australian children than they did a decade ago. The sharpest rises have come since 2021. That is the headline finding of a national study published...
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Moderate drinking and the brain make an uneasy pairing once the scanners get involved. Researchers have put “moderate” drinkers into imaging machines, and the pictures look far less harmless than the label promises. Moderate Drinking...
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New research has confirmed what many carers and clinicians have long suspected. Youth in foster care who live with a mental health diagnosis are far more likely to misuse alcohol, cannabis or nicotine than their...
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Childhoods marked by neglect, abuse or upheaval leave marks that can last well beyond the years they happened. A large new review of research confirms just how far those marks can reach. It links adverse...
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New research suggests that childhood trauma carried by fathers long before their own children were even born may still be shaping how those children behave today. A study tracking hundreds of American families has found...
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Ask someone why they can’t put their phone down and they’ll probably laugh it off. Ask them why they can’t cut back on drinking, and the conversation gets heavier fast. Both answers start in the...
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New Yale study suggests key clinical, cognitive, and brain-based differences. Key points Modern high-potency cannabis may be changing the landscape of psychotic disorders. Cannabis psychosis may be more than a temporary drug-induced condition. Continued cannabis...
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INTRODUCTION: A Crisis Hiding In Plain Sight Two numbers define the scale of the problem. In the United States alone, more than 100,000 people die from opioid-related overdoses every year. Among 15-year-olds in England, 44...
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For many women navigating perimenopause, a glass of wine at the end of a long day can feel like a well-earned ritual. It takes the edge off the stress, softens the anxiety, and sometimes feels...
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Background. Cannabidiol (CBD) now dominates consumer health markets worldwide. Manufacturers market it predominantly on the basis of perceived safety. However, CBD carcinogenicity FDA evidence, generated during the pharmaceutical approval process for purified CBD (Epidiolex, GW...
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The WFAD Capacity Building Webinar Series on Building Resilient and Inclusive Responses to Substance Use and Addiction was organised as part of this year’s World Forum series. Developed based on input from WFAD’s global network,...
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A major new study has raised serious concerns about teen drug use and mental health, finding that young people who use drugs or binge drink are far more likely to suffer psychological distress. They are...
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