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A recent study by the Stress Management Society found that 65% of people in the UK have felt more stressed since the Covid-19 restrictions began due to feelings of disconnection, uncertainty and loss of control. Throughout April the Society will be focussing on these...
Siblings who grow up together have an important role to play in each other’s lives. As children, they may spend a great deal of time with each other, learning, sharing and experiencing everything together. Such sibling relationships are often the very first peer...
A new scheme rolled out last week will see state-of-the-art sobriety tags used more widely in England. Offenders who commit alcohol-related crimes may now have to wear a SCRAM ankle tag, which measures their alcohol intake every 30 minutes. Probation officers will be...
A study into Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland has found that levels of child poverty have gradually increased since the early 2010s. Covering the period just before the pandemic, the statistics show that 24% of children in Scotland were living in relative...
A hair follicle test for alcohol analyses two biological markers of alcohol consumption in a hair strand sample. There are two types of biological marker of alcohol: direct and indirect. Direct markers, as their name implies, directly track the intake of alcohol and...
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