The new UK drug strategy promises a new approach to cutting drug supply, but is it new, and can it work? Interesting commentary from Matthew Bacon and Jack Spicer in International Journal of Drug Policy

My commentary on harm reduction and the new UK drug strategy, now available free at International Journal of Drug Policy for 50 days. authors.elsevier.com/a/1fiCQ3PEroZG… 1/6

Great to be part of the Police Now National Policing Drugs Network today. Really interesting to discuss the government strategy and to hear from Matthew Bacon- ‘Breaking Supply Chains’ is definitely worth reading and gives thought to the practicalities of implementation.

Job opportunity to work with me @AlexStevensKent @EmWilliamsOU Saji Mon MP Dan Lewer @pkquinton and others on our evaluation of police-led drug diversion schemes! Message if you have any questions jobs.ac.uk/job/CVB383/res…

Come and work with me and great colleagues CHSS, including on a realist review of overdose prevention centres, with @gwshorter & Mat Southwell jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Please RT

Thanks so much for coming to The University of Sheffield School of Law, Sheffield. It’s really important for our students to learn about the great work being done by Cranstoun @TV_VRU WestMidsPCC

Thanks Ben Twomey and Megan Jones (She/Her) for writing such an excellent chapter. The work you’ve done to develop and deliver a harm reduction approach to drugs deserves the attention 🙌

Centre Co-Director Charlie Lloyd, postdoctoral researcher Tobias Kammersgaard and co-investigator Ross Coomber have contributed chapters to an interesting new book on drugs policing edited by Matthew Bacon & Jack Spicer routledge.com/Drug-Law-Enfor…

It arrived! So thrilled to hold my first ever book chapter in my hands, written in partnership with the brilliant Megan Jones (She/Her) as part of a new edited collection on drug policy and policing. Buy it here: routledge.com/Drug-Law-Enfor…

We are recruiting two quantitative researchers to work on a data linkage study into the effects of police diversion related to drugs: jobs.kent.ac.uk/LSSJ-233-23 and jobs.kent.ac.uk/LSSJ-234-23. Working with me, @AlexStevensKent, @pkquinton, Jack Cunliffe, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and many others.

Thanks for putting us in a great panel @BSC2023 Matthew Bacon Great papers and connections 👌 #bsc2023 #coproduction Red Rose Recovery Peter Yarwood

Our special issues in Policing and Society will soon be published as a collection. Matthew Bacon @pkquinton Dr Karen Lumsden Thomas Friis Søgaard Dr Melissa Jardine Dr Sarah Charman @TessaDiphoorn Anna Souhami #ethnography #policing

The brilliant @KirstenSDF and I will be speaking at this N8 Policing Research conference on Drugs Policing, 2nd July 2024 at The University of Manchester. HT Matthew Bacon registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend/r…

Today was an epic day of Megan Jones (She/Her) and myself supporting as guest lecturers for Matthew Bacon never done that before was super cool!! Cranstoun

Happy to see this article on emerging victims in drugs policing published (open access) in the British Journal of Criminology. Really enjoyed writing it with the brilliant @HJ_Marshall_ and Jack Spicer academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-ar…

Leah was a wonderful researcher and friend. Her passing is a devastating loss to so many

I've just published a new book about cuckooing. Conceptualising it as a drug market harm, I use the risk environment framework to analyse why people become vulnerable to this form of exploitation and how it can be reduced.

Calling any budding police custody researchers out there. Come and work with me as Research Associate on my current project. 😁😁 Details are below. 👇