Last week Steve Rolles joined Adam Holland from Faculty of Public Health, & Abigail Wilson, lead clinical pharmacist for With You, in Westminster for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Drugs Alcohol & Justice, to present to MPs, Lords & key stakeholders on responses to Synthetic Opioids

There's calls by Transform Drug Policy Foundation for #Devon to offer routine testing - following a major incident at the weekend which saw two deaths and nine people being taken to hospital

Devon & Cornwall Police say investigations continue with five people on bail

Latest here: planetradio.co.uk/greatest-hits/…

Great to see this coverage of nitazenes in the UK and why we need the government to act. Pleased to have supported the BBC team in getting this out. Billy McLennan bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Bristol, mark your calendars! 📅

Transform's new Co-CEO Shoba Ram is speaking about the future of drug policy alongside David Nutt, Neil Woods and Matty Edwards.

Grab your ticket now to join us and The Bristol Cable on May 16th 👉headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/brist…

Today marks 10 years since we lost our beloved Jake. We miss him every day. This short film about his life & death highlights the tragedy of UK drug policy which only leads to higher and higher numbers of drug overdose deaths. youtu.be/EdEq05W56O0?si… via YouTube

NEW: Latest The News Agents Investigates - Britain’s hidden homeless children

Nearly 140,000 kids in Britain are now homeless, in so-called “temporary accommodation”. We went to a school where half of the kids don’t have a home to call their own.
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My obit for the late great Dr Nuke theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

I wrote about 'Peak Booze' – 2004, when UK alcohol consumption reached its highest point for a century – and its potential relation to the current record alcohol death rates. For The Observer >>>

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Multiple heroin samples tested positive for nitazenes in Bristol yesterday

Synthetic opioids require a GOV.UK emergency harm reduction response *NOW*

🔷 Drug checking services
🔷 Overdose prevention centers
🔷 Free naloxone
🔷 Heroin prescribing + safer supply
🔷 Decrim

“Considering that nitazenes can be up to 500 times more potent than heroin their ever-growing presence in the UK’s illegal drug market should be responded to now,” explained Transform Drug Policy Foundation Ester

⚠ Nitazenes, dangerous synthetic opioids, have been tested in Bristol today (27/4/24) in multiple samples of heroin from different sources ⚠

Please share this urgent drug alert to people who use drugs, organisations and services locally and nationwide.

No comment on Dr Daniel Poulter MP's defection from Conservative to Labour* but he's been pretty sensible on drug policy in the past (see this Times column supporting our 50 Years of the Misuse of Drugs Act campaign👇)

*Labour have been terrible on drugs too thetimes.co.uk/article/after-…

At a pub Oxford this afternoon where Bill Clinton famously 'didn't inhale'

'Mapping a moral panic: News media narratives and medical expertise in public debates on safer supply, diversion, and youth drug use in Canada' by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸 et al (2024) via International Journal of Drug Policy...why is safer supply so stigmatized?

Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#DrugPolicy

A tribute to Russell Newcombe

Our thoughts are with Russells family and friends at today's memorial
transformdrugs.org/blog/a-tribute…

My full BBC interview on German cannabis legalisation is here (from 2.30) youtube.com/watch?v=VcOwUL…