Brief articles.
The Portuguese example for opiate addiction treatment.
How quickly can we improve depression symptoms in treatment?
We did a simple analysis of how quickly peoples depression symptoms improved week by week in treatment
https://promis.co.uk/blog/does-a-longer-stay-help/
Drugs Deaths
The Office of National Statistics has just released it’s annual report on drugs deaths and, amongst many findings, the total number of deaths is up sharply by a record 16% and to the highest level since records began in 1993 representing a doubling of deaths for men in particular.
We aren’t seeing the same terrible pain killer medication addiction problem that has devastated the USA but it is still a very alarming climb in the number of deaths.

Reference: ONS Report
Heroin on the NHS?
A new project to help people with complex heroin addiction problems.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/heroin-nhs-robin-lefever/
Are religion and spirituality significant predictors of recovery?
psychiatry.org reference a paper and report that ‘spiritual or religious programs’ are more effective for treating people with substance use disorders. We look at the evidence to see if it takes a ‘step’ too far in it’s claims.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/psychiatryorg-published-article-month-titled-programs-robin-lefever/
Comparison of the effectiveness of antidepressants.
The medical research journal, The Lancet, has published a paper ranking the effectiveness of different anti-depressants.
Read here:
https://promis.co.uk/blog/antidepressant-effectiveness-rated/