Adam Holland
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(he/him) Public Health Consultant researching drugs and stigma at the University of Bristol
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Jenny Scott
about 1 month ago
We co-developed a resource with people with living experience of using pharmacies for substance use services, to support pharmacy teams to better understand what it feels like & reduce stigma. Free, just need to download. Please do share:
express-licences.bristol.ac.uk/product/voic...
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Voice of the Voiceless - Bristol
https://express-licences.bristol.ac.uk/product/voice-of-the-voiceless
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Dan Lewer
6 months ago
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...
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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...
https://journals.plos.org/mentalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmen.0000322
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Jessica Spratt
about 1 year ago
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...
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Chris B
11 months ago
Looking forward to seeing the amazing crew from
@transformdrugs.bsky.social
next month
www.eventbrite.com/e/sheffield-...
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Sheffield: Take Drugs Seriously
Drugs can be dangerous but does banning them cause more harm than good?
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sheffield-take-drugs-seriously-tickets-1116547847669?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Max Daly
11 months ago
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
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Prof Harry Sumnall
11 months ago
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...
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'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…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395925000131
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Prof Viv Hope
about 1 year ago
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
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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...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12954-024-01127-2?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20241118&utm_content=10.1186%2Fs12954-024-01127-2
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