Monica Barratt

Creating Safer Injecting Practices Through Community‐Led Harm Reduction: Lessons From People Who Use Steroids for the Alcohol and Other Drug Sector Introduction Research on anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) use has addressed health outcomes, social dynamics, service access and risk management strategies. Yet little work has examined how these d...

New collab in @apsad-dar.bsky.social shows people who inject steroids still lack clear guidance. Peer-led approaches could change that.

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Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction This special issue develops a more integrated approach to conceptualising relationships between the digital and physical in drug markets and harm reduction using concept of “digital-physical hybridity...

Call for papers for SI on Hybrid Drug Markets. Will explore the blurred on- and offline aspects of drug markets, drug use & harm reduction. Edited by @monicabarratt.bsky.social @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social, @Robin van der Sanden. Abstracts 20 Sep. www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...

🔓Risk communication about high-dose MDMA: Impact of a hypothetical drug alert on future MDMA use

Joel Keygan, Breanna Willoughby, @psychopharmres.bsky.social @monicabarratt.bsky.social,
Amy Peacock

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NIH.Gov Archive Index With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...

📣 NEW: BEGUN, THE INDEXING OF THE NIH WEBSITE ARCHIVE HAS.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to grab the NIH content until last week so it's possible that some of it had already been disappeared, but this includes anything which was there as of 2/13/25:

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🔓Development, dissemination & community response to 1st community notice on misrepresented illicit steroids in circulation in Australia
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Barriers to the use of no and low alcohol products in high‐risk drinkers Introduction Consuming no or low (NoLo) alcohol products in place of regular strength alcohol products could reduce alcohol-related harms in high risk drinkers. This study provides a new perspective...

Based on research available Open Access - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Jennifer Seddon @piatkowskitim.bsky.social
@chenealpuljevic.bsky.social puljevic.bsky.social @monicabarratt.bsky.social Adam Winstock @jasonferris22.bsky.social

Steroid checking 'Wave 3' Results Are In!

We have now analysed >100 samples across 3 waves.

🔎 Key Findings:
✔️ 78% contained expected steroid
⚠️ 22% contained unexpected steroid
📉 50% samples underdosed
📊 Full report: hi-ground.org/app/uploads/...

Clinical toxicity of nitazene detections in two Australian emergency department toxicosurveillance systems Introduction Nitazenes are a group of potent synthetic opioids that have had increasing prominence as novel psychoactive drugs in the last 5 years. We describe emergency department nitazene-related ...

"Most patients were unaware they were using nitazenes. Given their potency, this has important implications for harm, particularly in those not intentionally using opioids."

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"Headline from Fortune Crypto: 'The federal government just got the greenlight to sell $6.5 billion in Bitcoin seized from Silk Road,' written by Catherine McGrath, published on January 9, 2025, at 5:00 PM EST. The article focuses on regulatory developments surrounding Bitcoin."

Something to think about with the Ross Ulbricht pardon. The feds are still sitting on $6.5 billion in bitcoin seized from silk road. If Trump gives it back to Ulbricht, he could easily pay back Trump by trading it for Trump coin. A potential bribe of millions or billions of dollars for a pardon.

Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

President Trump granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace.

Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

Happy birthday!

Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for. The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.

Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?

You are right. I think 2025 is the moment to close my account for good.

I'm appealing to colleagues and the organisations I work with to stop using X/Twitter. The platform now extracts profit by promoting a racist who hates modern Britain, incites violence and is in continued contempt of court. Continuing to use X is not compatible with our values.

Today's lesson discusses the American health care system for those in countries where their system provides care for free or reasonable fees. 👇

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Except so many people think it’s either 2C-B or actually cocaine - given it being called either tusi or pink cocaine - at least in Australia many people seem confused and not aware it’s supposed to be MD+K

'This will save lives' - Ireland's first supervised drug injection centre to open this December Merchants Quay Ireland said the facility will host medical staff who can “intervene when overdoses happen”.

IRELAND’S FIRST EVER medically supervised drug injection facility (MSIF) is set to open in Dublin in December, according to the charity overseeing the service.#harmreduction saves lives. www.thejournal.ie/supervised-d...

I don’t really understand why people want to use a completely random mix of unknown substances either!

Labor gave the public one day to weigh in on teen social media ban. It got 15,000 responses Elon Musk helped boost interest in the inquiry by making a viral post on X. Then the submissions started flooding in.

It is disappointing that we were only given one day to respond to the proposed social media ban for under 16s. We dropped everything and were one of 15,000 submissions.

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

- James Baldwin

AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warn David Attenborough among famous people whose voices have been exploited by fraudsters It’s the new badge of celebrity status that nobody wants. Jennifer Aniston, Oprah Winfrey and Kylie Jenner have all had their voices cloned by fraudsters. Online…

AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warn

Drug and Alcohol Review Call for Papers: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Substance Use and Addiction Research Guest Editors: Emmanuel Kuntsche, Jason Ferris, Zhen He, Kathryn Backholer, Gary Chan and Benjamin Riordan

Working on AI/machine learning and addiction? We have a super broad call for papers out for a special issue in Drug and Alcohol Review. Papers are due by March 1st.
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Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

Thanks for making this. I love what you’ve named it. Basically Australians who are into drugs 😂

Sounds excellent Bruno!

Vancouver Island doctors set up overdose prevention sites without government blessing The sites are being set up at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria and Nanaimo General Hospital, and organizers plan to run them all through this week.

These brave doctors are following history. We have always been forced to use civil disobedience to save lives: supervised injection, narcan, needle, distribution, safe supply. Unjust laws are meant to be broken. Respect. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/v...

Looks great. Topical for us in Australia right now 😳

These are the substances we detected for the first time in drug samples sent to our lab. These were certainly circulating before then, and wasn't necessarily found by themselves. pyrazolam canrenone desalkyflurazepam spironolactone atropine fluoxetine delta-4(8)-iso-THC AB-MDMSBA N-(1-phenethyl-4-piperidyl)-N-benzylpropanamide etodesnitazene phenazolam

Preview for our November newsletter: the 11 new substances we found in the drug supply in October. Each has a story and context we’ll go into, so sign up now opioiddatalab.ghost.io