Drug and Alcohol HIT News

Health Integration Team model evaluation paper published

  • 1st July 2016
The results of NIHR CLAHRC West's preliminary evaluation of the ‘Health Integration Team’ model have…

Our 2015-16 annual review is out now

  • 27th June 2016
Our 2015-16 annual review was launched at our annual Health Integration Team (HIT) conference on…

Could hepatitis C treatments help prevent virus transmission?

  • 18th May 2016
An international team of researchers has shed light on the potential impact of new drugs…

Study finds low dead space syringes are acceptable to users

  • 8th March 2016
The NIHR CLAHRC West project, in collaboration with the Addictions Health Integration Team, examining whether…

Resilience programme at UWE Bristol helps students to develop ‘mental wealth’

  • 1st February 2016
An emotional resilience (ER) programme launched recently at the University of the West of England…

Methadone increases death risk in first four weeks of treatment for opioid dependence

  • 16th September 2015
Patients who start treatment for dependence on opioids are five times as likely to die…

New Anchor Robotics facility opens to develop robots that help elderly to live independently

  • 9th September 2015
Bristol Robotics Laboratory's new Anchor Robotics Personalised Assisted Living (ARPAL) facility enables robotics researchers, elderly…

Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research

  • 16th August 2015
The Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research (EBI), co-funded by the Wellcome Trust…

Vesalius Clinical Training Centre

  • 15th August 2015
A unique, world class facility at the University of Bristol for practically-based understanding of anatomy…

NHS innovation challenge prizes

  • 20th July 2015
More than £150,000 will be awarded to new ideas to address England's biggest healthcare challenges…

Addictions HIT review of 2014-15

  • 27th May 2015
Professor Matt Hickman, Barbara Coleman and Dr Tim Williams, Directors of the Addictions Health Integration…