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Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined December 2020
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Come and join our team!
Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems @SHAAPAlcohol @RCPEdin supporting their work to reduce alcohol harms in Scotland
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Urgent action needed to improve #alcohol care in #Scottish hospitals, say specialists: bit.ly/3VFw66u
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🚨New figures from @NatRecordsScot show that alcohol-specific deaths in 🏴 are at a 5 year low.
🗣️Read our full statement here: shaap.org.uk/news/fall-in-al…
📊See the report from @NatRecordsScot: nrscotland.gov.uk/latest-new…
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🧠Today is #WorldBrainDay2025
Dr @DocDavidM explores the science behind alcohol use disorder. He discusses the impact of trauma, genetics, and stress on compulsive drinking, and why treatment, mutual aid, and psychosocial support offer hope for recovery.
youtu.be/3s5WZ59u49s
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Today, @WeAreWithYou and our partners @turningpointsco @DocDavidM @ADPDUMGAL we presented at the @scotgov People’s Panel on Access to Care and Treatment. A fantastic experience, all the best to the panel as they make their recommendations
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Imagine a world where every institution, whether within the spheres of commerce, government, or civil society, had an active policy to reduce unilateral dependence on their service, by increasing interdependence in community life, with services playing a supplementary role. #ABCD
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Wow. A local NHS consortium bid for this contract - yet it’s just been awarded to @HCRGCareGroup, the private company that was once Virgin Care.
@HCRGCareGroup will now - for profit - provide community care across all of Bath, Swindon, NE Somerset & Wiltshire.
Heartbreaking 😔
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1/ “I couldn’t get the advert for pink gin out of my head. Within months I was on life support.” Karen from Newcastle went through alcohol recovery and reflects how constant alcohol marketing risks the lives of vulnerable people #reducealcoholharm
#timeforaction
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🚶♀️ TODAY IS THE DAY 🚶♀️ #RecoveryWalkScotland
We are so excited to welcome everyone to Glasgow Green today!
See you SOON! 💜
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“Brief biopsychosocial stabilisation should not be mistaken for sustainable recovery from addiction; recovery is not durable until it is firmly nested in the community.” William White
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A new report estimates that 40 percent of all cancer cases are associated with factors we can change—alcohol consumption being a prominent one. wired.trib.al/4RG1TQb
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Over 90% of people who seek alcohol treatment do so under pressure, often from multiple sources. Drinking problems are not like chronic pain or cancer in which the person is typically desperate for a cure and doesn't need a push.
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Friendship is a superpower!💪❤️During #RecoveryMonth and beyond, reach out to a friend 👋in #recovery and invite them to join you in activities that support their recovery journey.🏓⚽️🧩samhsa.gov/find-support/help… @samhsagov
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We looked at this in a recent paper, David
Our latest paper expertly led by @MeganGlancy_ looking at risk of drug-related associated with co-prescribing of gabapentinoids and z-drugs among those receiving opioid-agonist therapy is now in press in @PsychiatryResJ - brief THREAD on key findings... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
ALT https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165178124003135?CMX_ID=&SIS_ID=&dgcid=STMJ_219742_AUTH_SERV_PA&utm_acid=208394081&utm_campaign=STMJ_219742_AUTH_SERV_PA&utm_in=DM483259&utm_medium=email&utm_source=AC_
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Research on language that impacts substance use disorder stigma can inform public health policies. Identifying which vocabulary is preferred is important in these recommendations. A study showed some prefer the term “addiction” over “drug abuse."
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"Bursting the Lyrica bubble”: experiences of pregabalin use in individuals accessing opioid agonist treatment in Dublin, Ireland. - Drugs and Alcohol. #pregabalin drugsandalcohol.ie/31533/
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🎉 Great to see this in print📝 - @MCA_med summer newsletter. Rehab in 🏴 Have a read here 👉 m-c-a.org.uk/wp-content/uplo… 👀 @DocDavidM
David McCartney retweeted
Anyone with experience of alcohol dependence (or other addictions) could help shape future research by completing this survey. Research that would help people with dependence, and their families, in the future.
The Addiction Mission PSP has officially launched their initial survey!
You can influence the future of #Addictions research. Have your say in what research would improve quality of life for people with addiction and their families: surveymonkey.com/r/WHK29XH
@UK_Life_Science
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"Nobody seriously argues the tobacco industry should be involved in developing policies to reduce smoking, & it’s no more credible to suggest alcohol producers would contribute positively to policies to reduce the [negative] impacts of their products."
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"Alcohol dependence was strongly related to alcohol-associated cancer sites in both sexes... Rehabilitation treatment or abstinence was associated with significantly lower risks compared with alcohol dependence without rehabilitation or abstinence."
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