Prescriptions for these beta blockers are soaring among England’s teenage girls. But they deserve more than this sticking-plaster approachThe first time I had a panic attack, I genuinely thought I was dying. Unless you have...
Read MoreEveryone knew about my years of addiction, the dangers I had put myself in. The second time around, after 11 years sober, not even my husband knewI am finding it very hard to write about my return to drinking. This is...
Read MorePreviously considered a middle-class drug, price drops have made cocaine more widely available, and created a new set of problemsCocaine-linked crimes on the rise in Britain as consumption surgesAgeing users and record deaths –...
Read MoreFrom incontinence to reconstructive bladder surgery, ketamine’s popularity with the young is a public health crisis in motion. But is Dooley the right person to get to grips with it?Stacey Dooley’s latest documentary, Down the K...
Read MoreDrug gangs have moved off Britain’s streets and into vulnerable people’s homes. Addicts like my friend are easy targets, but the reality can be more complicated than it seemsDuncan is a good friend of mine. He looks like a...
Read MoreMany males are returned even if they are trafficking victims but Home Office must now consider new legal guidanceThe Home Office could be blocked from deporting many young male trafficking victims to Albania after a major court...
Read MoreParents and teachers worry about the number of kids who vape cannabis. But many of them are using something far more dangerous – without even realising itI bumped into an old acquaintance the other day. Updating me on his...
Read MoreThree decades after he channelled his heroin addiction into the cult classic Trainspotting, the Scottish author has discovered the joys of yoga, breathwork and standing desks. But is he quite as ‘Zen’ as he claims?By rights,...
Read MoreThe double assassination of two Scots in the Costa del Sol may have ended the war between the Lyons and the Daniels – but the crimes haven’t gone awayIt was a warm evening in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol last year when two...
Read MoreCouncillors pass motion that paves way to setting up drugs-consumption facility where users can be helped and treatedUK politics live – latest updatesBristol has been formally declared a “city of harm reduction”, with local...
Read MoreTwo mothers fought British bureaucracy to obtain lifesaving cannabis medicines for their children. But most patients are having to go private – at huge costIn the summer of 2012, Britain was in a festive mood. It was the year of...
Read MoreSocial media influencers and booming men’s health companies are pushing the hormone as an answer to all ills. But is ‘low T’ really problematic – or something created to sell men a cure to a problem they don’t have?A s a young...
Read More