Freaky Tales: this gory 80s-inspired anthology film is all surface and no substance: Nostalgia for the 1980s has been in vogue since the release of Stranger Things in 2016. The Netflix show brought about a renaissance of interest in the popular culture of the time firmly rooted in nostalgia – video game arcades, the role-playing …
The Substance: Demi Moore is ferocious in gloriously gory satire on Hollywood’s female ageism: Fans of body horror will not want to miss director Coralie Fargeat’s latest offering, The Substance, which bagged Best Screenplay for the Frenchwoman at Cannes this year, and features an astounding comeback performance from Demi Moore. There’s a sense of grim …
How substance use services can better support LGBTQ+ people: Many LGBTQ+ people do not access drug and alcohol support services because they fear stigma and discrimination. Old Town Tourist/Shutterstock LGBTQ+ people in the UK face significant barriers to accessing substance use services, due to a number of factors, including fear of discrimination and stigma. Our …
Timeless review: Nigerian star Davido’s new album is mostly form over substance: Davido has gone back to work after the death of his young son. Jean Catuffe/Getty Images Nigerian Afrobeats star Davido (David Adeleke) has demonstrated himself to be a master of showboating. He is able to milk every situation to the maximum. And he …
Raphael: it’s time we stopped dismissing Italy’s great painter as style over substance: How bountiful and benign heaven sometimes shows itself in showering upon one single person the infinite riches of its treasures, and all those graces and rarest gifts that it is wont to distribute among many individuals, over a long space of time …
Claims that COVID jabs can be used to track you with ‘luciferase’ are false – the substance isn’t even in the vaccine: Emerald Robinson, the White House correspondent for the conservative news network Newsmax, recently tweeted that Moderna’s COVID vaccine contains luciferase “so that you can be tracked”. “Read the last book of the New …
Mental illness and substance use: the two often go hand in hand so why is it so difficult to get help?: Sam Wordley In the UK it’s estimated that 86% of people who access treatment for alcohol use experience mental health problems. Similarly, 70% of people in treatment for drug dependency also have a mental …
A cool Paternoster image: British Library digitised image from page 2 of “Sayer’s History of Westmoreland, containing the substance of all the remarkable events recorded by Burn and Nicolson, together with a variety of … information from ancient MSS. … With illustrations by T. Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "Sayer’s History …
Google building evacuated after discovery of strange substance: An envelope containing a mysterious substance spurred the evacuation of a Google building in Mountain View on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. The envelope was discovered at a building on the 2600 block of Casey Avenue about 3:35 p.m., according to Mountain View police. : Weird News Authorities …
Integrated care can help prevent suicide among substance users: Shutterstock There is strong evidence that people with substance use problems often also have other psychiatric disorders such as depression and psychosis, that in turn is linked to suicidal behaviour. Those who do not receive help are at a higher risk of committing suicide than the …
Weird substance discovered in new A 5 notes – and people are upset: You probably shouldn't eat them anyway, but even more so if you don't eat animal products, given the recently introduced polymer cash contains tallow, which is derived from animal fat. We found out about the odd addition late on Monday, when the …
South Africa in the news: Increase in global life expectancy offset by war, obesity, and substance abuse: a GBD collaborator from South Africa who serves as a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, in Cape Town. “Policymakers in all nations – from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe – can …
Towards Narrowing the Treatment Gap for Substance Use Disorders in Cape Town, South Africa – a South Africa interest event taking place on 2016-04-11 13:00:00 in United States Towards Narrowing the Treatment Gap for Substance Use Disorders in Cape Town, South Africa Presenter: Bronwyn Myers, PhDSponsors: Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) and Bass Connections-Global Health …