We are recruiting a Research Fellow and Research Assistant to work on a NIHR funded project to evaluate a school-based drug education program for 13-15 year olds in Scotland & England Research Fellow details ➡️: lnkd.in/eQKYm53N Research Assistant details ➡️: lnkd.in/ejkqEXqV closing date: 23/1/26

Great news - The deadline for the 2026 Conference of the International Society for the Study of #DrugPolicy in Perth Australia has been extended to 15 December. 🦘 To submit you abstracts go to issdp.org

Call for papers for Special Issue: Including lived experience in substance use research think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Open access: ‘Why don’t we just build it in a square hole?’: developing a multi-component drug outreach service for young people aged 16–25 in England @karenduke.bsky.social @darc-mdx.bsky.social @zoewelch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0968...

🫵 Could YOU be our new Director of Communications? Lead our policy, public affairs, and communications to drive systemic change. Salary: £60k. Flexible 4.5-day week. Hybrid role with a minimum of two days in our London office. Apply by 5pm, 3 March 2025. revolving-doors.org.uk/were-hiring-...

💥🌍 #DrugPolicy folk - please spread the word about #ISSDP2025 🌏💥 The call for abstracts for the 18th International Society for Study of Drug Policy Conference in #Manchester, UK from June 11-13, 2025 is now open! We have scholarships too. ⏰ Abstracts due 31 Jan www.issdp.org/conferences-...

Wishing all our editors, authors, reviewers, readers and editorial board members a wonderful holiday season! ❄️ Thank you for all your contributions. We look forward to another fantastic year of publishing in 2025! @karenduke.bsky.social @torstenkolind.bsky.social @amypennay.bsky.social

Really honoured to be part of the organising committee for this year’s Int Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) in Manchester. Hosted by Manchester Met (who madly made me a visiting professor ☺️). Call for abstracts opened www.issdp.org

Coming in April 2025, we are very excited about this! @soc-researcher.bsky.social @gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social @jholmessheff.bsky.social www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Annual trip to the Koestler Arts Exhibition, ‘No Comment’, on the South Bank. As always, the art and poetry was spectacular. This was one of my favourite collages made from prescribed medication packets. It’s on until 15 Dec - check it out.

With the caveat that someone might have done this already ... I've created a Drug Policy starter pack. I'm sure it's missing lots of people, so do shout if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/BhiCbGn

📣 Release is recruiting a research lead for a new 4 yr project (Seriously thrilled about this). Working with unhoused folks we want to explore how housing policies must be inclusive of people who use drugs. www.release.org.uk/vacancy-rese... Deadline 25 Nov (excited this is my first post here)

New paper in @deppjournal.bsky.social looking at ethical and political divergences within drug policy reform advocacy through the lens of three key concepts in liberal thought: positive/negative freedom; rational autonomy and social contract www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Morality boundary work in the making of the needle and syringe exchange program in Stockholm www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....