Still stoked with my (+ ) contribution to , hopefully the first of more🧡
Drug laws are & will continue to be the main vehicle for state violence against people who use drugs and ethnic minority communities around the world.
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🚨FRESH: On the eve of yet another cannabis execution by the , we republished piece on #TangarajuSuppiah, another victim of the Singaporean's state's brutal war against people who use drugs.
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Pretty unhelpful Times story about ketamine this AM. It reads like an attempt to undermine serious and dedicated people working to reduce drug related harms in students through updating of Uni drugs policy/action in line with UK Drug Strategy priorities and best practice /1
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1/6 How much is public health considered in the Government's white paper on drugs?
And what does a public health approach look like?🧵👇
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UK prisons are extremely overcrowded and underfunded. A huge step would be to decriminalise drug use and instead treat it as a medical problem that requires treatment. Doing that would eliminate most of the non-violent people, so that the rest may be rehabilitated.
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Out here struggling to get the media to care that someone dies every 6 hours from drug-related causes in the UK
The BBC:
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I've raved enough about it, but now I put it all in words.
A quick roundup of #HR23 on the page that I wrote. Without their support I would have never been able to attend this conference.
Proud to be part of the youth voice on drug policy ✊
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"A Melting Pot of Harm Reductionists" - read the reflections of our IWG @andrebgomes33 - @Talkingdrugs and @Release_drugs - about the #hr23 that happened last month in Melbourne, Australia. @HRInews #StrengthInSolidarity #harmreduction
Read it here 
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Read it here tinyurl.com/2u983t4c1
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🚨FRESH: #Belfast City passed a motion calling for drug consumption rooms in the capital.
We need DCRs wherever there are drug deaths
& highlight how much hard work there's been to bring this motion forward.
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A reminder that the cost of #Coronation Day (of £250 million) would have covered the functioning of dozen of life-saving drug consumption rooms across the UK
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Remembering what must've been some jaw-locking, conversation-mashing, unregulated dreaming 48 hours of imagination in Dublin ✈
Great by I believe, shame the pics aren't working anymore
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We asked young harm reduction activists & advocates what harm reduction means to them, in one word. These were their answers. Comment and let us know what harm reduction means to you. Happy #internationalharmreductionday ! ✊💕 #InternationalHRday #harmreductionsaveslives
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No amount of psych meds or therapy can dissolve food deserts, uplift poor wages, or transform the social dysfunction at the core of countless struggles.
For true healing, we must address systemic issues + cultivate meaning & community.
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Still dreaming about #HarmReduction23 and having had the chance to both travel to Australia, link up with advocates and hear from amazing people from around the world.
leads the amazing & Paulina writes amazing content for
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Take action to change our failed drug laws - it's time!
You can make this year's lobby the BIGGEST one yet.
📍Parliament
📅 27th June
⏰ 12 PM
Let us know that you're coming 👇👇
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In #CannabisEuropa with & our highlighting how to include those overpoliced/criminalised by cannabis in future legal models.
Decriminalisation can underpin any model of drug control, and SHOULDN'T be restricted to #cannabis 🍃
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I get the argument & all... But does this mean that ingesting N20 is ensuring it doesn't create emissions?
By ingesting nitrous and preventing it entering the atmposphere, we're... saving the planet? Or am I just stupid? I got a D in Chemistry in school
Thinking of coerced treatment, compulsory detention, involuntary commitment, diversion schemes, user registries, forced urine testing & the myriad other ways the state uses 'public health' to control, exploit & harm drug users. #AbolitionNow!
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These are a couple of the photos from the pre-execution photoshoot Tangaraju posed for. He hadn’t wanted to do it at first but a loved one had wanted to have more recent photos of him.
Rest in Power, Appu.
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I learnt so much and met some amazing people and orgs working in the UK.
Communities have been abandoned by the gov and decades of austerity. And kids are increasingly at risk of being criminalised through anti social acts.
So happy to have contributed to a chapter. Read it!
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LAUNCHING TODAY
HOLDING OUR OWN: a guide to non-policing solutions to serious youth violence
The start of a ground-breaking campaign collab to move away from police + punishment and give power + resources back to communities so our young people can thrive
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It's been so beautiful to be involved with this amazing group of orgs so committed to rebuilding communities as they're increasingly abandoned by the state.
👏 to all
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HOLDING OUR OWN: a guide to non-policing solutions to serious youth violence
The start of a ground-breaking campaign collab to move away from police + punishment and give power + resources back to communities so our young people can thrive
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So proud of this report, working with some amazing organisations to reimagine community safety! Thanks to for all their work on this. And the brilliant for their leadership
#holdingtheirown
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LAUNCHING TODAY
HOLDING OUR OWN: a guide to non-policing solutions to serious youth violence
The start of a ground-breaking campaign collab to move away from police + punishment and give power + resources back to communities so our young people can thrive
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All over Prague, seeing so many weed shops selling HHC was actually quite perplexing from a UK perspective - hadn't even heard of this before
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In the last year, HHC and other semi-synthetic cannabinoids, have emerged on the drug market and are being sold openly as replacements to cannabis and THC products.
Learn more about these substances in our latest report: emcdda.europa.eu/publications/t
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I'm off to #HR23 - first time in Australia and at a conference!
Presenting w/ support on getting rid of police from schools in the UK, thanks to amazing work.
Im still pinching myself that I get to travel to do what I love 🥰
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Two weeks ago today I visited the fixed site Drug Consumption Room and the mobile Supervised Injecting Facility in #Lisbon.
I know that this will be an instructive trip for all those travelling from #CorkCity:
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Not the advocate we wanted.
Also this MFer is writing paragraph after paragraph on twitter - give me more characters mate
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Replying to @micsolana
I think we should legalize it. The probability of overdose or a bad batch is greatly reduced if there is actual QA & regulation.
Also, crime flourishes when substances are made illegal. Alcohol is very much a “drug” – it’s just a legacy drug from olden times when we had no… Show more
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Good morning, please enjoy this thread of Pedro Pascal as #naloxone, along with some facts!
Naloxone is a medicine that temporarily blocks the effects of opioids and can reverse an opioid overdose. Find out how to get & use it here: stopoverdose.org
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Only 6% think authorities in Britain are winning the 'war on drugs' (defined as 'combined efforts to end the supply & use of illegal drugs')
60% think they are losing
Yet, despite over 50years of obvious & abject failure, the Government's conclusion is
*MORE WAR ON DRUGS*
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Scrapping the mandatory #deathpenalty in #Malaysia will end the use of this incredibly harsh sentence for a variety of crimes, including drug trafficking.
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Probably the best thing you'll see today.
In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.
The results 🧵
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This.
While the UK policy agenda moves to mre and more bullshit by both leading parties, there's a public health crisis raging on in the background. This shouldn't be a failed case to study in the future - it's saving lives now
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Kirsten Horsburgh of the Scottish Drugs Forum says action on drug deaths has been too slow and says Scotland should open drug consumption rooms now.
"We need to be making bold, brave changes...rather than looking back and regretting what we could've and should've done."
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The third episode of our podcast is up! Joined by ( & ) we discuss the importance of youth-led activism in drug policy, as well as the challenges we might deal with when working on harm reduction - Check it out: 🔗linktr.ee/youthrise
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There's no visual distinction between mostly white powders.
Testing is key not only to save lives, but to know WTF you're putting in your body!
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29 #DrugsData.org #DrugChecking results
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1) cocaine, methylecgonidine, tropacoc…
2) MDMA
3) bk-EBDB
4) clonazepam, lorazepam
5) oxy
6) cocaine, methyecgon…
7) ketamine, ket precursor A
8) fentanyl, 4-ANPP, phenethyl 4-ANPP
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How can journalists responsibly cover the war on drugs?
Join us for a webinar on April 5 at 1pm EST on journalism and the drug war, featuring: , , and
Register at: bit.ly/CTDWandJournal
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Police are strip searching children, and drugs policing is driving this horrendous practice.
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My wonderful colleague on ITV news yesterday discussing the proposal to control nitrous.
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Got to speak on @itvnews with @ShehabKhan on #laughinggas
What didnt make the cut 
- crucial expert ACMD advice was ignored by Gov
- more criminalisation won't decrease health or social harms
- we still don't have a national campaign on nitrous harms and where to seek help
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- more criminalisation won't decrease health or social harms
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Our press release on the nitrous oxide ban.
More posturing around election season, on who can be the toughest on crime. And everyone that uses drugs, or is around those that do, are going to come out losing.
More on this tomorrow 😴
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