Today we’re launching a series of films - Drugs: It’s Complicated - intended to tackle the stigma directed towards people who use criminalised drugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NAj...

Reimagining Drug Use (Drugs: It's Complicated - Film 2)

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Today we’re launching a series of films - Drugs: It’s Complicated - intended to tackle the stigma directed towards people who use criminalised drugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NAj...

Reimagining Drug Use (Drugs: It's Complicated - Film 2)

YouTube video by Drugs: It's Complicated

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Next week, I'm going to be talking to Kojo Koram about his new book - the Next Fix - in which he explores historical and contemporary developments in drug policy, what is driving emerging models of drug legalisation, and who is benefiting.

The Next Fix launch with Kojo Koram at Bookhaus

The future of drugs is here, and it’s dangerously unequal. Over the last decade, the status quo around drugs has collapsed. Drugs once sold as safe cures have been revealed as ineffective or dangerou...

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We co-developed a resource with people with living experience of using pharmacies for substance use services, to support pharmacy teams to better understand what it feels like & reduce stigma. Free, just need to download. Please do share: express-licences.bristol.ac.uk/product/voic...

We've just published a scoping review of projects that aim to improve opioid agonist therapy (eg. methadone) in acute hospital settings: journals.plos.org/mentalhealth.... This is part of our excellent iHOST project (www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...). A couple of findings ...

Interventions to improve access to opioid agonist therapy in acute hospitals: A scoping review

Many people who use illicit opioids have negative experiences when admitted to hospital, which is partly due to poor availability of opioid agonist therapy (OAT). We conducted a scoping review of inte...

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Are you LGBTQ+? Have you drank or used drugs? Please take my survey, in collaboration with The Rainbow Project. It's anonymous and only takes 15 minutes! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ulster/dru...

Looking forward to seeing the amazing crew from @transformdrugs.bsky.social next month www.eventbrite.com/e/sheffield-...

Journalists: Let’s call time on news reports that refer to drug users as ‘zombies’ (and no, using quote marks does not make it ok) It’s embarrassing and it leads the public into thinking drug users are subhuman

Prof Harry Sumnall@profhrs.bsky.social · 2y ago

In our new study (£0) we find that the use of dehumanising ‘zombie’ framing, frequently used in news reporting on drugs, leads to higher public stigma towards people who use drugs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In our new study (£0) we find that the use of dehumanising ‘zombie’ framing, frequently used in news reporting on drugs, leads to higher public stigma towards people who use drugs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

'Zombie drugs': Dehumanising news frames and public stigma towards people who use drugs

News media is an important determinant of public understanding of drug policy topics. Recent media reporting around the use of synthetic drugs such as…

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Great to see this published the first of the outputs from the iHOST Project. Great collaborative work with colleagues across the UK incl. @jscottuob.bsky.social @niamhrelease.bsky.social @danlewer.bsky.social

Improving hospital care for people who use drugs: deliberative process development of a clinical guideline for opioid withdrawal management - Harm Reduction Journal

Background Management of opioid withdrawal in hospital settings is crucial to improve treatment completion and health outcomes among patients who use opioids, such as heroin. Evidence-based clinical g...

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