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Without evidence-based public health policies that treat drug addiction as a chronic condition and prioritise prevention, opioid overdose deaths are also expected to increase worldwide as the epidemic expands beyond North America.

This issue includes articles on alcohol misuse, depression, the silver phone service, urine dipstick tests, Covid-19 and nutrition.

With Covid-19 and visiting restrictions, meeting patients' relatives on the ward to update them about ongoing management and escalation plans does not happen very often. The aim of this audit was to evaluate the quality of communication between doctors and a patient's next of kin in a community hospital.

In this blog, Dr Anil Kumar and Tanvi Sinha ask what happened to prescribing small glasses of alcohol for those patients stuck in hospital over Christmas and ponder what other traditions are disappearing due to financial constraints.

NICE has recommended that patients with newly diagnosed glaucoma and ocular hypertension should initially be offered selective laser therapy treatment rather than eye drops.

Taking a combination of vitamin D supplements and omega-3 fish oil appears to carry a lower risk of developing autoimmune disease, finds a trial of older adults published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

Opicapone (Ongentys), a once-daily oral add-on treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease, has been accepted for use by The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).

A world-first Covid-19 study needs at least 6,000 more participants to sign up so that life-saving antiviral treatments can be rolled out to the general public.

Restrictions put in place to slow the spread of Covid-19 in adult social care settings will be eased from next week, the government has announced.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has announced a new three-year strategy that hopes to build towards a world in which everyone has the best possible health and healthcare.

Experts are warning that the NHS will soon struggle to cope with the volume of patients with aortic valve stenosis, after research revealed that 300,000 people in the UK have the potentially fatal condition.

Higher continuity of GP care for patients with dementia was associated with safer prescribing and lower rates of major adverse events, according to new research.

Dr Harry Brown lists his top five apps that have enhanced and enriched his personal life during the pandemic. In this blog, he looks at three common pastimes - watching TV, listening to music and reading - that have been made even more accessible using modern technology.

Alcohol misuse is a growing problem for older people. But old age psychiatrist Dr Tony Rao believes all practitioners have a role to play in identifying those in need and ensuring they receive support without stigma or shame. 

Two leading neurology experts have called for increased research into the underlying causes of Long Covid and possible ways to treat the wide variety of symptoms in the brain and nervous system.