A safety warning has been issued in Bristol due to nitazenes being found in several samples of heroin over the weekend.

For more information on how you can best keep yourself safe, please visit the link below.

bdp.org.uk/concerns-about…

Nitazenes, dangerous synthetic opioids, were found in multiple samples of heroin bought in Bristol today.

⚠️ Please share this urgent drug alert to people who use drugs ⚠️

If you’re Bristol based, get in touch with us for Naloxone, OST or advice around your drug use

The first regular drug-checking service is back in Bristol this weekend.

Join The Loop on Saturday from 12-7pm at our Health & Harm Reduction Centre at 11 Brunswick Square, Bristol, BS2 8PE.

If you have a few minutes today or this week, why not complete the Global Drug Survey. So important to hear what is happening around the world and improve our understanding. Take part here redcap.health.uq.edu.au/surveys/?s=CK3…

There is still time to complete this year's global drug survey.

The survey aims to make drug use safer regardless of the legal status of the drug and promote honest conversations about drug use across the world.

Find out more ➡️ redcap.health.uq.edu.au/surveys/?s=CK3…

Media framing xylazine as a 'zombie drug' is amplifying stigma onto people who use drugs
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There is a tension between criminal justice and public health, most obviously in the days after prison release, when there are many preventable deaths. This problem persists despite attempts to address it. Chantal edge and me commenting in The Lancet: thelancet.com/journals/lance…

‘FPH recognises the climate crisis as the greatest threat to human health this century, and we know that fossil fuels have a devastating impact on the life chances of populations across the globe.’

Read the Faculty’s position statement on fossil fuels.

fph.org.uk/news/fossil-fu…

What are nitazenes? In this episode, James speaks to Peter Furlong Change Grow Live, Rick Lines Public Health Wales, Adam Holland University of Bristol, Guy Jones Reagent Tests UK at the Loop, and David Nutt Drug Science.

thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked…

We are back in Bristol for our monthly drug checking service.

Visit us at BDP | Bristol Drugs Project (11 Brunswick Square) & we can test substances of concern.

Drug checking not only helps individuals reduce risk but build a picture of the drug market for harm reduction communications.

Don't forget the next drug checking session is this Saturday, 12-7pm, from our Health & Harm Reduction Centre at 11 Brunswick Square, Bristol, BS28PE

Our article describing the iHOST study intervention and evaluation is published in NIHR Research NIHR Open Research, pending peer review. Feel free to add comments to the article, or direct questions to me, Magdalena Harris or any of the other excellent authors: openresearch.nihr.ac.uk/articles/4-10/…

With concern over the increasing prevalence of synthetic opioids in the UK, ombudsman information released via FOI to The Independent shows that nitazenes have already been responsible for the deaths of at least two people inside prison.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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.EU drugs agency recognises the problem that nitazenes may pose for people using drugs in the UK.

We need to go further than just recognising harms - we need to take ACTION to deal with this emergency.

DCRs, decrim, and support - NOW 💥

h/t Transform Drug Policy Foundation
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