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Drug deaths involving cocaine use rose by 16% to 371 last year, according to the Office for National Statistics, while overall there were 3,744 deaths from legal and illegal drugs…

An increase in workloads for mental health trusts in England has led to the government planning to aim is to recruit enough nurses, therapists and consultants to treat an extra…

The concept that depression is a serotonin problem is increasingly being called into question and this challenges traditional ideas of depression as a genetic illness, suggesting instead that our experiences…

Stress at work is spiralling out of control, with many employees in danger of completely burning out, a survey shows while a psychologist has warned that over-stress is ‘a time…

A recent study has shown that the brains of women with bulimia react differently to food under stress than other women‘s brains and the psychologists who conducted the study found…

In the wake of the Grenfell fire and the terror attacks in London and Manchester, NHS England has sent out a letter to all GPs offering practical advice on how…

We are fast becoming a population of insomniacs as health and lifestyle problems like obesity, excessive alcohol and sugary drink consumption, smoking, lack of physical activity, mental health problems, stress…

Children’s charity Spurgeons says we are living in a society where children are struggling and parents don’t know where to turn for help. Parents are most worried about low self-esteem…

Social media use and ‘being online’ seem to be part and parcel of modern living with UK teenagers have some of the highest rates of internet use in the developed…

The recent accidental fatal shooting of a man live on YouTube – in an attempt to draw more followers to their site – has been described by US authorities as…