Nicky Kalk
@KalkNicola
Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist @MaudsleyNHS KCH Alcohol Care Team and visiting clinical lecturer @kclioppn. Views my own.
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Gaining an understanding of the circumstances that lead to binge drinking and #alcohol #dependence whilst using a #motivationalinterviewing approach may help identify how harmful drinking patterns might be shifted to the benefit of the patient, thereby reducing #suicide risk.
Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) This is what I wish more doctors understood. See it in even non-anorexic but malnourished patients all the time - a lack of understanding of the fact that their brains will not be working properly. Starved brains are not healthy brains.
Alcohol duty provides desperately needed revenue to fund public services on the front line of alcohol harm. #DutyToRecover
Alcohol duty should be automatically adjusted with inflation to ensure rates retain their value over time and continue to protect society from the devastating harms of alcohol.
✍️ Write to the Chancellor to support alcohol duty:
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#DutyToRecover
Alcohol Health Alliance UK
Professor Ann McNeill Ann McNeill Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience National Addiction Centre finishing off our 2 weeks of #NVIE Office for Health Improvement and Disparities tweets with a final message about #vaping harms and perceptions
Read the full report here 👇
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Martin Dockrell ASH
There's no UK restriction on this study! We're looking for mums to fill in a new drinking motives scale. Please share original tweet as widely as possible.
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#MaternalHealth #Alcohol #HarmReduction Shalini Arunogiri Dr Sally Hunt NCT FASD United (formerly NOFAS) Sandra Butcher
Look out for the free e-book “Alcohol No Ordinary Commodity” coming soon from international experts. This evidence should guide our approach to tackling this public health emergency in Scotland #GAPA_VE Maree Todd Dr Sandesh Gulhane MSP Gillian Mackay MSP Paul O’Kane MSP 🇺🇦 Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP🔶🇺🇦