| Alcohol
10 million adults drink too much and wine drinkers are the worst, watchdog warns
Alcohol-related hospital admissions double under Labour
The metals in your daily glass of wine that have been linked to cancer and Parkinson's
In detail: nine types of heavy drinker
Coroner warns binge drinkers after 10-pint spree kills barman
A quarter of adults drinks excessively as doctors warn of 'tsunami of alcohol-related harm'
Alcohol-linked hospital admissions rise 7% in a year
- double in 10 years
Wine is worse for brain than beer, scientists reveal in blow for women drinkers
Just two glasses of wine a day 'can double blood pressure'
Middle-aged binge drinkers dying in record numbers
Alcohol-related deaths double, report shows
Teens as young as 15 are drinking 177 pints of beer a year, report reveals
Millions of women drinking more than they realise because of larger wine glasses
1,000 victims of binge-drink Britain hospitalised every day
'I'm a middle-class drinker and it's slowly killing me'
Epidemic of middle-class drinkers damaging health with 'hazardous' levels of alcohol
Tantrums, violence and useless, the £12,000 therapy: what REALLY goes on inside rehab
A third of GCSE pupils get drunk - and many are using drugs as well
The ladette effect puts 40% more children in rehab for alcohol abuse
Now the DIY liver test kit that tells you when you've had enough
Binge-drinking epidemic increases as alcohol related A&E admissions soar
Number of alcohol-related cases doubles in a decade
Alcohol-induced illnesses soar
Government crackdown on middle class drinkers
Mothers-to-be who have one glass of wine a day need help, says doctors
Smoking
Champix anti-smoking drug linked to 10 British suicides
'Smoking police' hit the streets to shock people into quitting
NHS suspects fraud in £61m stop smoking programme
Report says smoking costs NHS £2.7 billion pounds a year
Health chiefs axe 200 beds... then fork out £350,000 on 'stop smoking' advisers
Drug taken to stop smoking is linked to traffic accidents
Sky Sports executive slashed wrists after taking controversial stop-smoking drug - Champix
Council sparks fury as it becomes first in Britain to ban smoking outside pubs
Woman tries to kill herself while taking Champix: Is this smoking pill safe?
Widow claims father-of-two driven to suicide by 'quit smoking' drug Champix
8% success rate for NHS stop smoking clinics
Smoking at the wheel could lead to conviction
Cannabis use among young offenders rockets by 75 per cent in just three years
Doctors refuse to fix builder's broken ankle unless he quits smoking
Dramatic fall in heart attacks in wake of smoking ban in Scotland
Tenants who can't light up at home
Third of bosses to axe cigarette breaks when smoking ban arrives
Smokers told to quit or surgery will be refused
Smokers face £80 fine for dropping butts in the street
Anti-smoking pill approved by watchdogs despite clear evidence of low success rates
Give smokers paid time off work to quit
Smoking ban meets resistance in "tolerant" Germany
£50 Million bill for nicotine patches 'that keep smoker addicted'
Government considers raising smoking age
Lung disease undiagnosed in 4 of 5 sufferers
Drugs
Britain now official drugs capital of Europe as more youngsters use cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines
One in ten adults admits taking illegal drugs in the past year
Drug crime up as Home Office admits police have been under-recording serious offences
Drug policies just make addiction worse
The bureaucracy of drug addiction needs drug addicts far more than drug addicts need the bureaucracy of drug addiction
Perpetuating the Addiction Myth
Drink and drugs 'key' to suicide
£1.85m to get each person off drugs - Drug services make slow progress
Drug success rate of 3% is nothing more than the natural rate of remission
Are Government drug treatment programmes a waste of taxpayers' money?
Number of drug-addicted teens increases by a third in two years, figures show
Millions of pounds 'wasted' on drug treatment, Tories claim
The new 2008 drugs strategy explained
Drug treatment 08 - success or failure?
Rise in drug use sees more than 1,200 children hospitalised last year
Number of children hospitalised for taking illegal drugs rises 50% under Labour
Police losing fight against drugs trade despite billions spent
Cocaine and Ecstasy deaths up 1,200% since records began in 1993
Warning cocaine will be bigger problem than heroin
Cocaine overdose hospital admissions rise 400 per cent in just four years
Anti-depressants taken by thousands of Brits 'do NOT work', major new study reveals
200 heroin addict prisoners forced to go 'cold turkey' win damages for human rights breach
Current drug policy has 'limited impact'
UK drug crime strategy criticised
Crystal meth could become middle Britain's crack cocaine within four years
Britain's first drug 'shooting galleries' hailed a success
£2.5m to treat drug addicts - with heroin
MPs demand reform of drug rationing body NICE
Patients get poor deal from slow NHS, say MPs
Cocaine: The Hidden Epidemic
Quarter of young adults take cocaine or cannabis
Cocaine dieters: Women who turn to illegal drugs in their struggle to lose weight
Drug addicts to be given i-Pods if they beat their habits
Britain is now cocaine capital of Europe
I vowed not to date men who use cocaine 18 months ago - I've been single ever since
Growing numbers of housewives and professionals are becoming addicted to over-the- counter drugs, doctors have warned
Addicts turn Lemsip into 'crystal meth'
Labour's ten-year drugs war has achieved nothing but lower street prices, says experts
UK drug problem 'is worst in Europe'
Health chiefs accused of blocking new therapy for heroin addicts
Drug free treatment for heroin addicts
Methadone 96.6% ineffective
Scrap Britain's Drug Laws
Consumer group slams hidden promotion of drugs
Addict inmates share £750,00
Costs of drug abuse in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
General
GPs 'are focusing on patients who bring in bonuses', claims Civitas report
GPs 'waste' £100m NHS fund set aside for local care, study finds
Our health service is now worse than Estonia's
Chemotherapy can do more harm than good, study suggests
Hope for others as NHS rips up drug rules to give dying patients better final weeks of life
Three NHS trusts to be sued by cancer sufferers who have had to pay for their own drugs
'Inefficient & bureaucratic' NHS blamed for cancer drug bans
Biotech cash crunch threatens new medicines: UK expert
Brain stimulator treats depression by beaming magnetic pulses through the skull
Drug companies 'bankrolling charity campaigns for NHS cancer & other treatments'
Charities lobby Nice over cancer drug
How sick! GPs paid bonus to NOT send you to hospital
NHS to let patients self-refer for therapy care
Drug giants spending millions on doctors perks
MPs attack doctors' pay rises for less work
Drug Company Funding of Drug Trials Greatly Influences Outcome
Drug firms' lobby tactics revealed
Addiction Today Survey: Doctors speak out on the scale of the alcohol & drug problem
Demand For Clinical Trials To Check Drugs Against Natural Remedies & Placebo's
Wild plants are now being harnessed for new wonder drugs
'St John's Wort as effective as Prozac for treating depression', say scientists
Forget ADHT - a stroll in the park is as good at calming children as Ritalin, study finds
Lawyers make £3million every week out of NHS blunders
One in 300 NHS patients killed by avoidable blunders
Dentists 'giving patients pointless check-ups to exploit NHS payouts'
Cash-strapped hospitals paying £1,300 a day for temporary boss
Fed-up senior doctor quits £100,000 NHS job to become a hairdresser
What alternative medicine has known for 30 years: Vitamin C jabs 'trigger fightback against cancer'
Hope for arthritis vaccine 'cure' funded by
The Arthritis Research Campaign
Hope for breast cancer sufferers as cut-price drug 'stops it in its tracks'
The catch-all cancer drug to target every type of tumour
Drinking fruit juice 'may stop medication working'
Glaxo chief admits: Our 90% of drugs do not work on most patients
Cholesterol pill warning: Scientists raise fears of cancer link to statin used by thousands
Flu jab that costs £115m a year does not cut death rate in elderly
'Greedy bosses make drugs too dear', claims NICE chief Professor Sir Michael Rawlins How doctors are turning millions of us INTO addicts
GPs 'hook millions on prescription drugs'
Experts find fertility drugs don't work and cannot beat Mother Nature
60% of patients endorse alternative treatments
Why the medical profession are the biggest threat to YOUR health
Why do doctors kill more people than airline pilots?
Drug watchdog NICE 'spends more on 'spin' than tests on new treatments'
'Bullying, ignorant and patronising': NICE under attack
Arrogant, illogical and totally out of touch, NICE must be scrapped ...it's killing too many people
Too Late - NICE boss says sorry for delays in sight-saving drugs
Why have NICE approved a weight-loss drug banned in America over suicide fears?
Banned: Slimming drug linked to suicide is taken off the shelves 4 months after NICE approval
NICE must throw open the files on Alzheimer drug ruling
Around 80% of drugs fail at clinical trials
Growing numbers of pharmaceutical companies are halting trials as 80% of drugs fail stage III trials
Perhaps we need less medicine, not more
Drugs companies build up fear for profit, argues GP
An education trial of just 3 pupils hailed a success by Government ministers
Charity gives Aids orphans just £84,000 after raising £1.1m
No prosecution on suicide-risk drug
NHS faces spiral of decline, says think tank
Diabetes self-tests 'no benefit' to patients, only drug companies
Around 70 per cent of GPs feel complementary medicine should be freely available
Drug companies attacked over gifts for doctors
Appliance of science proves complementary
Co-ordinated campaign to derail alternative therapies on the NHS
Talk therapy for the depressed 'could be wasting millions', say psychotherapists
Are we being hoodwinked by alternative medicine? Two scientists examine the evidence
Problems with clinical trials and evidence based medicine
Drug trials are over too soon, warn doctors
Alternative treatments do work
GPs vote of 'no confidence' for Hewitt and the Government's running of the NHS
Call for Clinical Trials Registry Gaining Momentum
Don't be yet another victim of your doctor's ignorance
Coma victim able to speak again after pioneering magnetic field therapy
The revolutionary window that could wipe out nuisance noise
New 'sleep machine' could signal the end of insomnia
Cancer breakthrough as ultraviolet light is used to destroy tumours
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