by Jim Orford | May 22, 2024 | Addiction and the family
Addiction and the Family International Network (AFINet) now has over 500 members in over 50 countries. It held a very successful Second Conference in Rotterdam in 2023 and will hold its Third in Québec, Canada, in June 2025. Meanwhile the next of its regular webinars...
by Jim Orford | May 22, 2024 | Gambling
At long last the Government is doing something about harmful gambling, too little and long overdue though it is. Most welcome is the introduction of a statutory levy on the gambling industry to fund treatment, prevention, and research. A significant gap is the failure...
by Jim Orford | May 22, 2024 | Addiction
I have been studying addiction all my working life. It is a tricky subject, partly because there are different types of addiction which have very different harmful effects. Tobacco smoking, in the news because of the new Government policy, has been a very different...
by Jim Orford | May 22, 2024 | Economic Inequality
We are now living in a country with a very high level of income and wealth inequality. That is bad for the nation’s health and social cohesion. So why are our politicians and most of the media pundits afraid to talk about it or to advocate for a fairer society...
by Jim Orford | May 20, 2024 | War
We need to find ways to reduce tension, not enflame it. Public figures, including MPs of both the main political parties, are falling over themselves to convince us that the world is now a dangerous place, full of threats to our security and way of life. Defence...
