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Under "vaping horror" headlines, media amplified a study that was incomplete, unpublished and not peer-reviewed.
Experts scrambled to limit the damage. But many readers who smoke will already have absorbed what was reported.
Kiran Sidhu reports:
Excellent piece on Spainβs drug decriminalisation model & the expansion of harm reduction from our colleagues at the fabulous Metzineres
www.talkingdrugs.org/spains-decri...
Great to see you here.
The evidence is clear: forced abstinence kills people.
breachmedia.ca/media-politi...
Off to London to discuss some preliminary findings from our evaluation of police-led drug diversion schemes. #PDD healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.....
The civil service is looking for someone to lead the Joint Combating Drugs Unit which oversees drugs strategy work across Government. ('Deputy Director' doesn't mean you're the deputy; it's just a particular ranking in the civil service hierarchy)
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
DC People! I will be there for a book talk and signing on February 5th at Busboys and Poets at 6pm. Come on through and share widely with your networks!
Seating is limited: bit.ly/HarmReductio...
βThe United States could save hundreds of millions of dollars each year by reducing wasteful spending on unnecessary federal [marijuana] enforcement actions and detention,β reads Warren's letter to Musk.
Kyle Jaeger reports:
I've written a brief piece on how some of the coverage around the opening of The Thistle, the UK's first official drug consumption room, has concerned me, setting up false choices and oppositions. thinking-to-some-purpose.blogspot.com/2025/01/hopi...
Some interesting, important points here on responses to demand pressures on services across a range of policy areas, including health & criminal justice. I remain sceptical about whether we'll see this kind of approach implemented in practice, given how government looks at problems & solutions 1/
The Loop is providing public #drugchecking in Bristol this Saturday.
Free, friendly & focused #harmreduction!
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I'm interested by Donald Trump's statement in his inaugural address that his government will treat Mexican cartels as terrorist organisations. Do people more knowledgeable than me on these things understand what this might mean in practice for drug policy?
Scotlandβs finest: Denis Law never forgot his country and it always revered him
The King.
RIP Denis Law π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
Denis Law, Manchester United and Scotland legend, dies aged 84
In our new study (Β£0) we find that the use of dehumanising βzombieβ framing, frequently used in news reporting on drugs, leads to higher public stigma towards people who use drugs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#DrugSky
βPeople are still going to consume toxic substances. The only change now is they are not going to be supervised when they do it,"
Closures of consumption sites in other cities in AB have resulted in increased death rates. We will see the same here.
#abpoli
#DrugSky
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
An alcohol use disorder trial found that psilocybin "elicited durable shifts in personality" which helped patients.
βIt makes me very optimistic about psilocybin therapy for other forms of substance use disorders,β a researcher tells Alexander Lekhtman:
Take heart from that glorious evening in 1989 when everyone was cheering michael Thomas.
No. But at least we keep the door open for the Gunners to still win the league. God Willing
As a United fan. Iβm clutching at straws.
Fair comment. Iβm just trying to understand the dynamic here.
City win the league.
United bosses that game.
White working class boys in the UK have the worst prognosis for social mobility. So, why would Elon Musk, the worlds richest man, decide to support one of those? Iβm baffled.
