A recent article in the British Medical Journal (Kmietowicz 2009) reports that "The chief medical officer for England has called for a minimum price of 50 pence (0.54; $0.70) to be charged for a unit of alcohol to reduce excessive drinking and its associated harms. Liam Donaldson said that antisocial drinking should be targeted in the same way as smoking in public places so that being...
This set of five papers documents, in part, our mixed viewpoints on depression. Worryingly, Mehta & colleagues show deteriorating public attitudes towards mental illness in England (and to a lesser extent Scotland) between 1994 and 2003. Meanwhile Blumner et al demonstrate a shift towards a more biological view on causes and treatment of depression in the US between 1996 and 2006.
...This is the eleventh and final post about the Moroccan trip - a reflection once I was back in Scotland.
So it's before breakfast on Tuesday morning in Edinburgh. We got back about 36 hours ago. I'm now mostly into the swing of "normal, everyday life" again. 150 plus emails, piles of post, phone messages - the usual "welcome back...