The Drink Less app may be helpful in helping increasing-and-higher-risk drinkers motivated to reduce their consumption to drink less alcohol. The Drink Less app youtu.be/GAFHwwGuimg?si… via TeamYouTube

The Drink Less app, developed UCL, can help people cut down on unhealthy drinking more than the NHS alcohol advice webpage, finds a large randomised controlled trial led by Dr Melissa Oldham Behavioural Science & Health UCL & Dr Claire Garnett University of Bristol National Institute for Health and Care Research ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/mar/…

Brilliant work by Melissa Oldham and Claire Garnett and the entire DrinkLess team! From a public health perspective this is phenomenal: “a 2.00-unit greater weekly reduction at 6-month follow-up compared with the NHS alcohol advice webpage”

A free smartphone app, Drink Less, can help people who would benefit most from reducing their alcohol consumption to do so successfully, finds #NIHRFunded trial: nihr.ac.uk/news/app-can-h… @UCL UCL Population Health Sciences UCL IEHC ARIG Melissa Oldham Claire Garnett UCLnews

A free app, Drink Less, can help people who would benefit most from reducing their alcohol consumption to do so successfully, according to a large randomised controlled trial led by UCL researchers. Melissa Oldham Claire Garnett Jamie Brown Behavioural Science & Health UCL ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/mar/…

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New paper led by dimitra kale suggests an increasing proportion of smokers in England identify as social smokers. They tend to be less dependent and more motivated to quit than other smokers, but their quit attempts are not more successful. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Our systematic review of digital smoking cessation interventions and whether/how their characteristics relate to their effectiveness and whether/how this differs by socioeconomic position has been published!! doi.org/10.1080/174371…

New article! Read Do engagement and behavioural mechanisms underpin the effectiveness of the Drink Less app? dlvr.it/T93Cxj in npj Digital Med

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New paper exploring the acceptability of the Drink Less app and the NHS alcohol advice webpage among 26 increasing- and higher-risk drinkers who took part in the iDEAS trial jmir.org/2024/1/e42319/…

🚨🚨 Tenure-track faculty positions in Psychology and the Center on Alcohol, Substance use and Addictions at the Univ of New Mexico (UNM). 🧵 UNM is located in Albuquerque, ranked one of the best small cities in the U.S. by National Geographic Traveler. unmfirst.unm.edu/why-choose-us/…

New paper from our MRC funded TIDDLES project. Given people drink in a variety of different contexts, we wanted to explore how helpful context-specific tactics for alcohol reduction were perceived as being amongst risky drinkers pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39167598/

Our paper - Making sense of drug use and dependence – a scoping review of mass media interventions intended to reduce stigma towards people who use drugs – has just been published in International Journal of Drug Policy - doi.org/10.1016/j.drug… (1/25)

🚨Fantastic PhD opportunity as part of GW4BioMedMRCDTP to join us TARG Bristol to optimise the uptake and personalisation of digital health interventions for under-served groups with the fantastic Olivia Maynard Graham Moore Angela Attwood gw4biomed.ac.uk/optimising-upt…

Three new PhD opportunities in TARG! Digital health interventions for under-served groups tinyurl.com/bdc2nrun Virtual Reality and body perception tinyurl.com/457yw4cp Understanding the relationships between health outcomes tinyurl.com/47sjdhab