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2013

  • Therapy "could cut teen drinking" researchers say. BBC News, 25/01/2013

2012

  • Drugs policy - Newsnight. BBC 2, 14/12/2012
  • Alcohol dependency: When social drinking becomes a problem. BBC News, 14/12/2012
  • Men and women and Alcoholics Anonymous. British Psychological Society, 13/12/2012
  • 'Binge Drinking' gene discovered. BBC News, 04/12/2012
  • New guide for primary care professionals on rehab care. OnMedica, 21/09/2012
  • New dangers on the dance floor. The Australian,20/01/2012

2011

  • Minor Injuries Units could host alcohol interventions. Nursing Times, 22/12/2011
  • Who,What,Why: Why are Indians dying from alcohol poisoning. BBC,15/12/2011
  • New commissioning guide for alcohol services. Nursing Times, 31/08/2011
  • Tranquiliser addicts need help. BBC News, 15/08/2011
  • Life addicted to prescription drugs. BBC, 27/07/2011
  • GPs urged to support heroin addicts through recovery. Pulse, 19/07/2011
  • Spot binge drinkers - before they've touched a drop. TES, 20/05/2011
  • Prescription Drug Addiction Addressed. eGov, 13/05/2011
  • Drug relapse brain region found in rats. BBC, 20/02/2011
  • Health Check (featuring Professor John Strang), BBC, 03/01/2011
  • King’s experts named as ‘Britain’s Top Doctors’, 2011

2010

  • Average of 20 Heroin addicts pregnant a year. The Malta Independent, 29/11/2010
  • What's it like caring for a parent with an addiction? BBC Newsbeat, 16/10/2010
  • Shopping vouchers help addicts stay off Crack. BBC Health, 26/10/2010
  • "Tipsy" alcohol gene could help curb alcoholism. BBC News 20/10/2010
  • Heroin therapy call for ’chronic addicts’. BBC News, 28/05/2010
  • John Strang talks about the RIOTT trial, YouTube, 01/04/2010
  • Clubbers are turning to new legal high: Mephedrone. BBC Newsbeat, 13/01/2010

2009

  • 3.4 million children live with binge drinking parents. Mail online, 08/10/2009
  • Drug therapy record ’encouraging’. BBC News, 02/10/2009
  • Where does the UK get its legal heroin from? BBC News, 21/09/2009
  • Heroin supply clinic ’cuts crime’. BBC News, 14/09/2009
  • Minimum alcohol pricing a step closer. Newswire, 08/09/2009
  • The mind games smokers play. Newswire, 07/09/2009
  • New scheme to halt heroin overdoses. Channel 4 News, 26/06/2009
  • Cannabis - The evil weed. BBC Horizon, 05/02/2009

2008

  • Cheap cocaine ’barely 10% pure’. BBC News, 28/10/2008
  • Home detoxing my alcoholic friend, TimesOnline, 4/10/2008
  • LSD, Ketamine and Cannabis could treat conditions from headache to diabetes. TimesOnline, 20/12/2008
  • Cocaine’s brain effect revealed. BBC News, 25/02/2008

2007

  • A fix on the state. BBC News, 19/11/2007
  • Heroin clinic ’reduces drug use’. BBC News, 19/11/07
  • British experiment has pros and cons. Canada.com, 23/10/2007
  • Hospitals "do not probe drinking". BBC News, 25/07/2007
  • Cannabis hospital admissions rise. BBC News, 07/06/2007
  • Scottish health innitiative criticised. The Publican, 16/05/2007
  • Alcohol use by children on the rise. OnMedica, 04/2007
  • Drug may help alcoholics cut down. BBC News, 07/03/2007
  • Review of prison drug treatment services to begin. Irish Medical News, 5/3/200
  • Smoking alters brain ’like drugs’. BBC News, 24/2/2007
  • NHS heroin ’will protect women’. BBC News, 8/2/2007
  • Rehabilitation centre gives addicts hope for recovery.Gulf News, 12/01/2007

2006

  • Chemical may stop alcohol craving. BBC News, 25/12/2006
  • The impact of the licensing act one year on. LDAN news, November 2006
  • Drink laws ’not changing habits’, BBC News, 24/11/2006
  • Hardened addicts given free heroin in secret NHS trial. Times online, 23/11/2006
  • Police chief pleads for heroin on NHS - special report featuring an interview with Professor Griffith Edwards. Channel 4 News, 22/11/2006
  • Give addicts heroin, says officer. BBC news, 22/11/2006
  • More action required to tackle binge drinking. LDAN news, October 2006
  • On making friends,building alliances and avoiding the boring. An interview with Professor Griffith Edwards. 2006
  • Methylamphetamine: What’s new? 2006
  • Suboxone approved in EU for treatment of opioid dependence. DrugNewswire, 09/10/2006
  • Drink message ’does get through’. BBC news, 14/09/2006
  • Which is worse: Ecstasy or Alcohol? Nature.com, 31/07/2006
  • Smoking reduces alcohol effect. BBC news, 24/07/2006
  • One in three men turn to drink to cope with stress at work. BBC news, 08/06/2006
  • Britons ’lead the way in drinking themselves to death’. ITN news, 06/01/2006

2005

  • The diverse world of addiction medicine and the politics of treatment: An interview with Professor John Strang. 2005
  • Alcohol misuse referral in an emergency department: the REDUCE trial. 2005
  • Cannabis: Time to rethink? BBC news, 09/05/2005

2004

  • Why alcohol is addictive. BBC news, 15/03/2004

2003

  • Six-year-olds binge drinking. BBC news, 27/08/2003
  • Parents’ drug abuse harms children. BBC news, 05/06/2003
  • Detox may put addicts at risk. BBC news, 01/05/2003
  • Crack treatment services ’ill-equipped’. BBC news, 25/03/2003

2002

  • Internet drug warning. BBC News, 13/08/2002
  • Crack trade violence ’hits UK’s poorest’. BBC news, 24/06/2002
  • Cannabis leniency plea. BBC news, 14/04/2003
  • Call for more help for addicts. BBC news, 30/09/2002
  • Drug warning as liver disease rockets, BBC news, 31/07/2002
  • Dispenser could cut heroin deaths. BBC news, 13/06/2002
  • Clubbers’ mental health risk. BBC news, 14/01/2002

2001

  • Blood chemical counters cocaine. BBC news, 21/11/2001
  • Take-home cure saves drug users. BBC news, 14/04/2001
  • Dramatic increase in alcohol consumption among women. BBC news, 14/11/2000

1999

  • Heroin use and criminal behaviour is halved by drug treatment. DH press release, 1999
  • How to beat holiday hangovers. BBC news, 19/12/1999

1998

  • The injecting drug taker and the community pharmacist. DH press release, 1998
  • Smokers a drag in the office. BBC news, 16/08/1998
  • Addicts cost tax payer £12m a year. BBC news, 02/08/1998
  • The nature of addiction. BBC health.
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