“A call for compassionate opioid overdose response” by Erin Russell et al (2024) via International Journal of Drug Policy…is your response to an overdose defined as compassionate by people who use drugs? Have you asked? Must read essay! Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

European Harm Reduction Conference #EHRC2024 Delighted to be asked by Correlation - European Harm Reduction Network to host this session with: Raoul Schaaf, Hugo Faria, Susanna Ronconi, @gwshorter, Alex Stevens, Theocharis Athanasios #DrugConsumptionRooms Check it out if you're attending! Via #Whova event app

TORONTO OVERDOSE PREVENTION SOCIETY AND ALLIED GROUPS TO TRAIN MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND BYSTANDERS TO LEARN HOW TO RESPOND TO OVERDOSE Forcing supervised consumption sites to close will increase potentially fatal toxic drug overdose deaths in public spaces.

Today! For Immediate release. Toronto OPS and allies across the province preparing neighbours of SCS to be able to respond if the sites are closed. Over 10,900 overdoses in the last 3.5 years were reversed in the sites slated to close. We need people ready to help. Go get trained

the action is on! come out, get trained, sign the petition!

Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate theconversation.com/data-centre-em… via The Conversation

A website of resources about the STEP UP project on strategies trialists can use to promote equal participation in clinical trials for under-served populations is at: step-up-clinical-trials.co.uk ..and a paper describing how it was developed is just out: bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Spoke the Calgary Eyeopener this morning about the potential closure of #yyc's lone supervised consumption site at the Sheldon Chumir Centre. 🧵 #ableg Closing this site is likely to 1) ⬆️ risk of death 2) ⬆️ not ⬇️ issues related to public drug use cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Of course, not forgetting the two regular volunteers who came out all the time dedicating their time to support the campaign for drug policy based in health for people who use drugs. This is them in the background. They were hero's & wanted to stay in the background.

Harm reduction relies on so many silent and under recognized heroes. To all of you, I offer you meagre thanks, not even touching the sides of the recognition you deserve. Thank you for being beyond awesome ♥️

The horrifying reality of being a woman, perfectly summarised by Cait O'Ryan If you give even the slightest shit about women, watch it all. This is what it’s like.

#RunForAlyssa

Visiting a DCR in #Lisbon while Lisbon Addictions conference. This #DCR run by aresdopinhal.pt/ares-do-pinhal supports 1000 people annually to safely consume: 0 deaths. They are linked in with other services incl. a methadone van distributing to 1300 ppl daily at 2 sites Office for Health Improvement and Disparities Department of Health and Social Care

Do you drink or take drugs? Identify as LGBTQ+? Live in NI? Can you help Jessica with her PhD? app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ulster/drug-…

Huge congrats to the APSAD Senior Scientist Award winner Rebecca Mcketin #apsad24 A.P.S.A.D

One layer at a time, they disappear—faces blurred, voices buried, lives hidden in fabric and silence. This isn’t modesty; it’s erasure. Afghan women deserve to exist, seen and heard.

Oh my heart.

🎙️Get caught up on the state of harm reduction in the UK: Drug policy experts Prof Alex Stevens and Dr. Gillian Shorter joined the Drug Science Podcast to discuss the effectiveness and controversies of current harm reduction approaches. drugscience.org.uk/podcast/episod…

Moving to the sky in about a week or so.