Adam Holland

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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...

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 ...

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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

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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

'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…

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...

"There were 23,724 seizures of unknown substances, a 27% increase on the previous year (18,643) . . . Where a drug is described as ‘unknown’ or ‘drug not known’, this generally means that police forces or Border Force have seized substances which they cannot easily identify".

Thanks for flagging this report Harry - really interesting. I wonder if some of the 'unknown drugs' might also be nitazenes - depending on what testing modalities they're using....

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...

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