‘The ketamine blew my mind’: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression?

This week sees the opening of the first UK high-street clinic offering psychedelic-assisted therapy. Could popping psilocybin be the future of mental healthcare?

‘I feel so good I may never drink again!’ Readers on their success – or failure – during dry January

Readers explain whether they looked, felt and slept better – or if they turned back to alcohol to cheer up a miserable month

Tim Dowling: I missed the dry January deadline. Wine it is, then

‘I noticed you’ve just decided to press on,’ says my wife. ‘I’ll probably give up for February instead,’ I say. ‘It’s shorter.’

‘I deserve a glass’ – and four other lies you should stop telling yourself about drinking

As stress rises, so does our alcohol consumption. Here’s how to change your relationship with drink for good

Readers’ hangover cures: 10 ways to beat the post-booze blues – from Radiohead to rollmop vinegar

If you’ve overdone it this first week of lockdown, here are tried, tested and surprising suggestions for how to handle the headaches and horror the morning after the night before

I had outgrown bingeing and hangovers – so I decided to drink more often

When I became a father, I had to change my relationship with alcohol. But was giving up the only option?

Well done on your sober October, but you’ll need a plan to remember for November

After a month without booze, you may be keen to cut down your drinking for good. But how? Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles has some suggestions

I was terrified lockdown would send me back to the bottle. The reality proved fantastically different

When my alcohol addiction was at its worst, I went from my bed to the supermarket and back, and my house felt like a prison. In lockdown I learned to love where I live

Covid risks making society more unequal than since early Victorian times

As life expectancy stalls and infant mortality rises, abolishing Public Health England will only make things worse, says public health expert Gabriel Scally

‘I was hammered for the first month of lockdown’ – meet the people who quit alcohol in the pandemic

Despite the stories of people drinking more when confined to home, for many this has been a time to tackle their dependency

‘Everyone was drenched in the virus’: was this Austrian ski resort a Covid-19 ground zero?

At least 6,000 people say they caught coronavirus in Ischgl, dubbed ‘Ibiza on ice’, and their class action is gaining pace. Those who were there recall a terrifying week

How can I stop being attracted to deeply damaged men?

My father was an abusive alcoholic and everyone I have been involved with in recent years has had addiction issues. How can I escape this negative pattern?

Harm from drinking alcohol at home spikes in Australia amid coronavirus

Emergency medicine expert cites anecdotal evidence as new study finds people drinking more frequently during pandemic

Sleep and exercise down, back pain and TV up in UK lockdown

Survey finds a third eating less healthily, but TV figures suggest daily surge for PE With Joe

Drinking in coronavirus isolation: experts warn Australians to monitor their intake

As Australia went into Covid-19 lockdown, alcohol sales increased. It’s tempting to drink in times of stress, but habits picked up now could be difficult to break