When we was fab

Excited to share a huge media analysis about police and fentanyl that I worked on for the past many months with The Center for Just Journalism. Check it out! justjournalism.org/page/fentanyl-…

200 years ago, psychiatrists recommended 'cheerfulness' therapy with the help of alcohol, cocaine and laughing gas pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38803201/ Perhaps we can learn from the past

Useful new report, highlighting the essential and complementary roles of targeted enforcement, market monitoring, prevention, treatment, and harm reduction in addressing the threat posed by novel synthetic opioids

Just catching up with this as it was recommended by a colleague. As you'd expect, this is a reasonable, well-informed conversation about the challenges and complexities of designing and implementing decent drug policy.

Our #SeeBeyondSeetheLivesScotland anti-stigma campaign has been shortlisted for best marketing campaign. Check it out here: seebeyondscotland.com

Thanks to Anna for leading and summarising our latest study of changes in indicators of cognitive recovery in early phases of alcohol treatment

Sexual abuse within the spiritual healing industry comes to light theguardian.com/society/articl…

Students! Don’t forget to register to vote. If you need to apply for a postal vote, here is the link: gov.uk/apply-postal-v…

Open advertisement on Facebook of HHC products for sale to the UK. In breach of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016

One of the arguments presented in this piece - and others - is that smoking is on the way out, with reproduction of the SDD11-15 prevalence graph. To note - this killer chart is for all 11-15 years. ‘Ever smoked’ is age dependent and is 2% in 11 y.olds but 25% for 15 year olds

Really inspiring to hear about the range of CYP research and engagement activities taking place across the LJMU Institute for Health Research and pleased me even more that so many people are thinking about/working towards whole systems approaches when it comes to risk behaviours

Great work from the co-lead of our #substanceuse group Dr Abi Rose The first UK study looking at the impact of #BirthTrauma on #alcohol #drinking Dr Sally Hunt LJMU Impact LJMUHealth