Our paper that came out today showing that if 90% of people receiving prescription opioids (doses of 50mg OME+) or more were provided #naloxone, we would save hundreds of lives, and it would be cost-effective. Monash Addiction Research Centre Burnet Institute 1/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Fear does not motivate people to make rational, safe decisions. Fear makes people take greater risks and deters them from seeking help should they need it. As festivals return, we need to re-evaluate how we handle risk and safety. @MelissaLDavey theguardian.com/australia-news…

Thanks Albo 🙃

I get that it's Covid Year 3 and we're sick of hearing about it, but it's wreaking quiet havoc for so many people. Whole households are in iso because schools are superspreader sites. Many of my students have it. Yet only public health nerds are still looking at the stats

Quiet win for AOD in the budget - $19.6m to expand the Take Home Naloxone program nationally over the next 4 years. A least 3 overdoses reversed every day under the Pilot.

Students for Sensible Drug Policy Australia are looking to expand our growing organisation and are currently seeking two Board Directors and a Company Secretary. Details in comments.

This Saturday DPMP's @ivolpe.bsky.social will be talking about the ‘protection racket’ built around children and drugs as part of the UNSW x Festival of Dangerous Ideas 'Fresh Blood' event this weekend. Tickets in the link below! centreforideas.com/event/fresh-bl…

Dan Howard SC outlines the lessons from the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into the drug Ice and the critical importance of #decriminalisation of simple drug use and possession to reduce drug related health & social harms #SANDAS2022 SANDAS #DrugPolicy

BREAKING - The NSW Government response to the #IceInquiry will be announced at 1230pm. #nswpol

The NSW Government has refused to decriminalise low-level use of illicit drugs as recommended by the ice inquiry which handed down its findings more than two years ago. It has accepted 86 and noted 14 of the 109 recommendations

IMPORTANT #HarmReduction information for Australians. Please RT

New from DPMP's @ivolpe.bsky.social with Caitlin Hughes and @monicabarratt: The complications and tensions of designing drug alerts within a prohibitionist system: harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…