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"Drug decriminalization policy under the microscope in the United States: crime data considerations to inform future research" by Hope M. Smiley-McDonald and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social ....what are some future crime considerations?
LINK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
28 July is World Hepatitis Day – a reminder to act to eliminate viral hepatitis, reduce cancer rates and save lives. Find out more - www.worldhepatitisday.org.au | bit.ly/worldhepdaysa #TestingSavesLives #TakeActionAustralia for #WorldHepatitisDay
27.07.2025 08:46 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“When they built my trust, they built my health”. Great article highlighting, among other things, the importance of tackling stigma for effective healthcare via Hepatitis Australia
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“Is drug-use stigma a breach of human rights law?: Insights from Australia” by Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear, & @carlatreloar.bsky.social (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy…what do you think? Is drug use stigma a breach of human rights law?
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Recent increases in crack injection and associated risk factors among people who inject psychoactive drugs in England and Wales" by Claire Edmundson and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social ....what are some recent crack injections risk?
LINK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Inspired by the 2024 Tackling Stigma conference convened by UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health, we wanted to build something where people could share resources, expertise and inspiration. Because working to tackle stigma is hard – we need each other.
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Today I’m so excited to launch a new global network – Tackling Stigma in Healthcare.
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“Defining and measuring ‘inhalant’ use in population-based surveys” by Crossin, Whelan, & Ball (2025) via
@ijdrugpolicy
…do people use inhalants in your region?
Check out the highlights below and the manuscript at the link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Access and care for people with opioid use disorder in U.S. skilled nursing facilities: A policy commentary" by Shivani Nishar and colleagues (2024) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social...do you think people with OUD should be referred to nurses?
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Increased risk of non-fatal overdose associated with non-prescribed benzodiazepine use in Scotland, UK" by A. McAuley and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social...is there a lot of benzodiazepine use in Scotland, UK?
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Implementation of a multi-component alcohol policy in Ireland: A qualitative study exploring barriers and facilitators to implementation” by @susancalnan.bsky.social and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…interesting read on alcohol policy!
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Negotiating the divide: Science, politics, and institutional boundaries in Swiss cannabis regulation" by Sharon R. Sznitman and colleagues (2025) vi @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…interesting study interviewing 18 people involved in Swiss cannabis policy!
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Speed and smoking kill: A time-varying survival analysis linking methamphetamine use, cigarette smoking, and mortality in sexual minority men” by Grace Yi and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…interesting read!
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Identifying barriers and facilitators to accessing harm reduction services in prisons: A systematic narrative synthesis” by O. Varsaneux and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…does your local prison offer harm reduction services?
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Association of fentanyl test strip results and change in drug use behaviors: A multi-state, community-based observational study” by Kitty H. Gelberg and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…do fentanyl test trips change drug use practices?
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Countering the institutionalization of harm reduction through critical pragmatism” by Andie MacNeil (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…how do you define harm reduction?
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy
“Necropolitics of the North: A rapid ethnography examining the effects of the closure of one of Northern Ontario’s only supervised consumption sites” by Lucas Tucker and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…great read and great title!
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Policy
📑Editor’s Choice 📑
“Impact of scaling up harm reduction interventions on injecting risk behaviours, ART outcomes and HIV incidence among people who inject drugs in Kenya” by Josephine G. Walker and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social.
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“A proportionality approach to the ethics of drug policy” by Mary Jean Walker (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…does your region apply a proportionality approach to the ethics of drug policy? Comment below!
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Ethics #International #DrugPolicy
“Stoned on the road”: A systematic review of cannabis-impaired driving educational initiatives targeting young drivers in Canada by @RobertColonna_ and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social. Does cannabis makes you as impaired as alcohol for driving?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Heroin injection to fentanyl smoking: Examining temporal trends in substance type and route of administration among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles, CA and Denver, CO, USA between 2021–2022 by Jesse Goldshear and all (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Willingness and contextual considerations for supervised consumption sites: a mixed-methods study among people who inject drugs in Stockholm” by Elin Holmén and colleagues (2025) via IJDP…what are some considerations for SCSs in your region?
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Led by Jake Rance
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I'm so excited to see papers starting to emerge from Australia's first trial of supervised injectable opioid treatment.
It took a large multidisciplinary team incl, of course, lived/living expertise to get this trial funded, running and evaluated.
3 papers are now out - more to come...
In this community briefing we will:
1. Provide an overview of the law against torture and its intersection with stigma.
2. Provide a template submission guide for the United Nations Committee Against Torture.
3. Answer your questions!
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/.../reg.../W...
Jake Rance, Vendula Belackova, James Bell, Adrian J. Dunlop, Nadine Ezard, Marianne Jauncey, Nicholas Lintzeris, ... @alisonritter.bsky.social ... @carlatreloar.bsky.social
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @hmriaustralia.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @amsterdamumc.bsky.social
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