Press Releases

A new review confirms drinking causes substantial harm to health. Some of those harms may be reversible if the person reduces or stops drinking.

A new study has found that kratom use – measured as kratom exposures reported to US poison centers – and cases of severe medical outcomes linked to kratom use have surged in the US over the past decade.

Nicotine containing e cigarettes appear to be more effective for smoking cessation than other interventions such as nicotine replacement therapy e-cigarettes with no nicotine, and behavioural support.

Cannabis use among Swedish adolescents appears to follow the same population-level pattern previously observed for alcohol: changes in average cannabis use are reflected across the entire group—from those who use infrequently to those who use frequently.

A new randomised controlled trial has found promising evidence that the smoking cessation medication varenicline (Chantix/Champix) can help people with cannabis use disorder (CUD) to reduce cannabis use.

A new study of over 32,000 US Veterans has found that the longer people stay on medications for opioid use disorder (buprenorphine, methadone, or extended-release naltrexone), the greater the probability of short- and medium-term survival.  This benefit continues to increase at least for four years of ongoing treatment, considerably longer than most patients currently stay in treatment.