According to research by The University of Glasgow, mental health patients who miss their GP appointments face a sig… More

130 Americans die everyday from an opioid overdose – that’s more people killed in the USA by the opioid epidemic… More

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Cocaine and mental illness – increasingly people are being admitted to hospitals in England with cocaine-induced m… More

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Channel 4 has long been known for commissioning programmes that break boundaries. Programmes that entertain and shock an… More

Stan Beer, co-founder of IT Wire, thinks smartphones are regressive – he says we’re becoming increasingly addicted t… More

Brian Paddick, the former deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, have spoken out movingly about the d… More

There’s an epidemic of loneliness. 55,000 people completed a detailed survey in the BBC’s Loneliness Experiment, mak… More