News, guidance and resources related to dual diagnosis in older adults - @oldagepsych editorial in Advances in Dual Diagnosis emerald.com/insight/conten…

Recent work for Department of Health and Social Care by Dr Beth Bareham and colleagues giving evidence of the impact of the pandemic on older people’s alcohol use

JOB AD - Join us Newcastle University Population Health Sciences Institute developing better approaches to supporting older adults with alcohol and mental health problems in the North East and North Cumbria (qualitative/evidence synthesis experience required) - jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-…

Great presenting work done with Dr Beth Bareham and Substance Misuse and Ageing Research Team on ABIs for older adults today at BSG Substance Use & Ageing Special Interest Group conference, and brilliant to hear about other projects from the UK, Austria and New Zealand

Fabulous session British Society of Gerontology Conference 2022 earlier this month with researchers from substance use and ageing discussing novel initiatives for supporting older people with substance use issues. Great to get together, along with an unlikely audience of the animals of Longleat 🦁

Great effort from Marissa Mackiewicz from VCU to combat #stigma in addictions amongst older adults m.youtube.com/watch?v=xevQb4…

NEW publication by Jennifer Seddon and I drawing together research with older drinkers including Drink Wise, Age Well to understand the meaning and impact of drinking in later life link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… @DrinkingStudies Thomas Thurnell-Read Laura Fenton

Fab to be here at #nihramc22 National Institute for Health and Care Research NIHR School for Primary Care Research always a fan training experience, and so great to hear what the other members are researching - and share what I’m up to!

Thank you for a really stimulating discussion on women's drinking womenandalcohol @DrinkingStudies - we're conducting similar work in the UK on perceptions of #alcohol and #breastcancer our project has just launched -sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/… Emily Nicholls Dr Belinda Lunnay

📢Calling UK-based #mentalhealth researchers 🧠🩺🕮! Please help Incubator for Mental Health Research GROW 2022 cohort inform how we're supported in UK academia by completing this survey york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0e… Please share & RT 🔁

Here are the age patterns in the increase in alcohol-specific deaths in 2022 (picked out in red). The biggest rises in the same groups of later middle-aged drinkers that have seen sharp increases in recent years.

📢Please SHARE, and take part if you can! Link to take part and for further info: nclpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6V…

📣Please share! We’re now looking for practitioners to take part in our survey about substance use in UK older adults (including prescription drug misuse) Please take part if you can Survey closes 21st June nclpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eX…

📢New paper! The acceptability of alcohol screening and brief intervention for older adults in community venues Jennifer Seddon @EileenKaner Barbara Hanratty Substance Misuse and Ageing Research Team evaluating a lovely initiative by With You Drink Wise, Age Well doi.org/10.1111/dar.13…