Substance abuse Blog Posts

• Do prescribed opioids increase self-harm and suicide?

  18 Mar 2026

  • Ian Hamilton

  
• Fatal drug overdose in healthcare workers: occupational hazards and systemic factors

  17 Dec 2025

  • Amelia Talbot

  
• Do hobbies protect against adolescent substance misuse? Not so fast…

  04 Nov 2025

  • Rob Poole

  
• Adverse childhood experiences increase the risk of juvenile reoffending

  21 Feb 2024

  • Athena Chow

  
• Mapping the trajectory of psychiatric diagnoses: Danish study finds that mental health diagnoses may change over time

  21 Jul 2023

  • Dona Matthews

  
• Substance use is higher and more excessive in transgender people: evidence, limitations and gaps

  07 Mar 2022

  • Ivan Ezquerra-Romano

  
• Many men do seek help prior to suicide, but are services adequately designed to assess men’s needs?

  19 Apr 2021

  • Cara Richardson

  
• Cost-effective strategies for mental health workplace intervention

  13 Mar 2021

  • Christopher Sampson

  
• Is there a causal link between mental health problems and risk of COVID-19 infection?

  15 Dec 2020

  • Andrew Steptoe

  
• Alcohol use and people with learning disabilities

  31 Aug 2012

  • John Northfield