People who use drugs are more likely to experience housing difficulties due to criminalisation and social exclusion.

That’s why we must:
➡️Guarantee the right to housing;
➡️Eliminate criminalisation of persons living in homelessness.

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‘…ever wondered why drug prohibition continues, despite its obvious failure to end drug use and the rising toll of drug-related deaths?’

Important questions, Alex Stevens highlights how a personal moral compass plays a role in policy and advocacy.

transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/01/30/the…

This is a subset of the multiple ways that administrative work has been shifted to academics, making us less effective in our core role: creating and sharing knowledge.

Rees-Mogg: a man who conned himself into voting for something that even he doesn't believe in. #BrexitReality

🧵At NEJM, I argue for decompartmentalizing health policy and properly politicizing it rather than allowing it to remain captured by neoliberal norms. Public health, safety, and economic security are entwined. We can’t build any without building all three.
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Journals and research funders would find it a lot easier to get reviewers if they didn't make us use such clunky, time-wasting online systems to access articles/bids and submit the review 1/2

A tribute event for Vincenzo Ruggiero at Middlesex University MDX School of Law. If you would like to attend, please register using the Eventbrite link. TributeProfVRuggiero.eventbrite.co.uk
The event is in-person and online. Online attendance must also be booked via Eventbrite.

Register to attend this fab The BSA event 26th April! With the always excellent Alex Stevens britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…
British Criminology #sociology

Nice to see my new book nestled up in the Drill Hall Library next to ones by Fiona Measham and Toby Seddon #drugpolicyconstellations

A failure of criminological imagination, as well as a waste of money.

All roads lead to Glasgow this July, for Social Policy Assoc and British Criminology