Massive congratulations to our fabulous PI Magdalena Harris 🎉🎉

Thank you to @DrugAlcoholDep, @PHE_uk for UAM data & Jason Doran for conducting the analysis. We found a strong relationship between venous access difficulty and SSTI among PWID in the UK. ProfVivHope, @WrightTalen , @ellenheinsbroek, Care & Prevent sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out this #podcast London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine alumni Dr Landon Kuester King's College London who talks with Dr Emily Finch, Addictions Clinical Director NHS Maudsley about the impact that #COVID19 #coronavirus is having on access to drug services: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/acc… Care & Prevent #health #research

Great presentation from Magdalena Harris on Care & Prevent work in @SDFnews webinar on care of injecting related wounds. Highlighted role of using too much citric in skin & soft tissue infections in ppl who inject drugs.

Crack & covid advocacy paper published! :) have just changed to open access, might take 24hrs. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Open access in SSM, pre-proof version. This article means a lot, for so many reasons. Hard & so important to do justice to these heart-rending accounts. Thank you to all the participants & in particular memory of those deceased since we spoke. Care & Prevent sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Online now!: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… New paper from Care & Prevent with fellow co-authors ProfVivHope Dan Ciccarone Dan Lewer Jenny Scott and Magdalena Harris 1/3

I would also add that people read Magdalena Harris's paper on delayed healthcare seeking and normalised pain, with interview data taken from the Care & Prevent study. The paper and our participants' words add deeper context than numbers alone could ever provide. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Just out from Care & Prevent! Of our 455 participants, 78% street homeless history, 64% abscess/cellulitis & 47% related hospitalisation. High hospitalisation rates for treatable & preventable conditions highlights a broken & discriminatory system. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Worryingly this paper by Public Health @ LJMU using data from IMS indicates that the coverage of needle & syringe programmes in England has halved since the COVID-19 restrictions were introduced sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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“It’s crucial that water for injection... is made available for the unstably housed & harm reduction messaging is tailored to speak to the everyday realities of people who prepare and inject drugs in public spaces” Magdalena Harris Dan Ciccarone Care & Prevent harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Thank you Karen and to NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service for the opportunity to present with Jenny Scott on this important topic. Time to revolutionise care for people who use illicit opiates in hospital (and other) settings!

Hot off the press! Written with Magdalena Harris - more much needed information inspired by the care & prevent study. bit.ly/2FHS0lZ

More practical outcomes from Care & Prevent led by Magdalena Harris.

“COVID-19 and the health of people who use drugs: What is and what could be?” Commentary with Magdalena Cerda Tim rhodes now out highlighting International Journal of Drug Policy COVID-19 special issue and emerging evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on the health of PWID - sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

V excited to be on Quirks & Quarks discussing trans men & trans women’s experiences of HIV self-testing and sexual health services. Hope this serves as a regular reminder that it is critical to involve trans people in designing services that meet their needs. cbc.ca/radio/quirks/f…

Read the excellent thread from Adrianna Murphy asking: 'What could we achieve if resources mobilized for #Covid19 were applied to improving access to other essential medicines?' 💊🤔👏 MSF Access NCD Alliance International Alliance for Diabetes Action Resolve to Save Lives London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

I don't have a wife or a daughter so it's really weird how I ended up believing all women should be treated with respect.

📣 Excellent opportunity to join a fantastic team National Addiction Centre. Who wouldn’t want to work with Polly Radcliffe, @HelenCheyne, and Jo Neale ?! jobs.ac.uk/job/CIM265/res…