"Drug decriminalization policy under the microscope in the United States: crime data considerations to inform future research" by Hope M. Smiley-McDonald and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social ....what are some future crime considerations? LINK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

28 July is World Hepatitis Day – a reminder to act to eliminate viral hepatitis, reduce cancer rates and save lives. Find out more - www.worldhepatitisday.org.au | bit.ly/worldhepdaysa #TestingSavesLives #TakeActionAustralia for #WorldHepatitisDay

“Is drug-use stigma a breach of human rights law?: Insights from Australia” by Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear, & @carlatreloar.bsky.social (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy…what do you think? Is drug use stigma a breach of human rights law? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Recent increases in crack injection and associated risk factors among people who inject psychoactive drugs in England and Wales" by Claire Edmundson and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social ....what are some recent crack injections risk? LINK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Drum roll please... Today I’m so excited to launch a new global network – Tackling Stigma in Healthcare. Check out the website: tacklingstigmainhealthcare.com

“Defining and measuring ‘inhalant’ use in population-based surveys” by Crossin, Whelan, & Ball (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy …do people use inhalants in your region? Check out the highlights below and the manuscript at the link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Access and care for people with opioid use disorder in U.S. skilled nursing facilities: A policy commentary" by Shivani Nishar and colleagues (2024) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social...do you think people with OUD should be referred to nurses? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Increased risk of non-fatal overdose associated with non-prescribed benzodiazepine use in Scotland, UK" by A. McAuley and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social...is there a lot of benzodiazepine use in Scotland, UK? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Implementation of a multi-component alcohol policy in Ireland: A qualitative study exploring barriers and facilitators to implementation” by @susancalnan.bsky.social and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…interesting read on alcohol policy! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Negotiating the divide: Science, politics, and institutional boundaries in Swiss cannabis regulation" by Sharon R. Sznitman and colleagues (2025) vi @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…interesting study interviewing 18 people involved in Swiss cannabis policy! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Speed and smoking kill: A time-varying survival analysis linking methamphetamine use, cigarette smoking, and mortality in sexual minority men” by Grace Yi and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…interesting read! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Identifying barriers and facilitators to accessing harm reduction services in prisons: A systematic narrative synthesis” by O. Varsaneux and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…does your local prison offer harm reduction services? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Association of fentanyl test strip results and change in drug use behaviors: A multi-state, community-based observational study” by Kitty H. Gelberg and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…do fentanyl test trips change drug use practices? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Countering the institutionalization of harm reduction through critical pragmatism” by Andie MacNeil (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…how do you define harm reduction? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #HarmReduction #DrugPolicy

“Necropolitics of the North: A rapid ethnography examining the effects of the closure of one of Northern Ontario’s only supervised consumption sites” by Lucas Tucker and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…great read and great title! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Policy

📑Editor’s Choice 📑 “Impact of scaling up harm reduction interventions on injecting risk behaviours, ART outcomes and HIV incidence among people who inject drugs in Kenya” by Josephine G. Walker and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“A proportionality approach to the ethics of drug policy” by Mary Jean Walker (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…does your region apply a proportionality approach to the ethics of drug policy? Comment below! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Ethics #International #DrugPolicy

“Stoned on the road”: A systematic review of cannabis-impaired driving educational initiatives targeting young drivers in Canada by @RobertColonna_ and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social. Does cannabis makes you as impaired as alcohol for driving? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Heroin injection to fentanyl smoking: Examining temporal trends in substance type and route of administration among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles, CA and Denver, CO, USA between 2021–2022 by Jesse Goldshear and all (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Willingness and contextual considerations for supervised consumption sites: a mixed-methods study among people who inject drugs in Stockholm” by Elin Holmén and colleagues (2025) via IJDP…what are some considerations for SCSs in your region? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm so excited to see papers starting to emerge from Australia's first trial of supervised injectable opioid treatment. It took a large multidisciplinary team incl, of course, lived/living expertise to get this trial funded, running and evaluated. 3 papers are now out - more to come...

In this community briefing we will: 1. Provide an overview of the law against torture and its intersection with stigma. 2. Provide a template submission guide for the United Nations Committee Against Torture. 3. Answer your questions! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/.../reg.../W...

Jake Rance, Vendula Belackova, James Bell, Adrian J. Dunlop, Nadine Ezard, Marianne Jauncey, Nicholas Lintzeris, ... @alisonritter.bsky.social ... @carlatreloar.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @hmriaustralia.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @amsterdamumc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/dar....

In this blog I try to break down some of the rather academic debate around this subject, concluding we must tread very carefully before putting people at risk of more stigma in the name of ‘disapproval’.

📝Editors Choice📝 "The intersection of substance use stigma and anti-Black racial stigma: A scoping review" by Rashmi Ghonasgi and colleagues (2024) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…such a great read! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔎 Special Issue Alert 🔍 This Special Issue seeks to provide ways in which we can understand drug-related violence. Submission Deadline is September, 15th, 2025. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... #InternationalDrugPolicy #DrugRelatedViolence

🔎Special Issue Alert🔍 Advances in understanding and addressing health-related harms among people who use drugs. SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS COMING UP: May 31st, 2025! Get your papers in for this super cool collab between @inhsu.bsky.social & us! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

"Harms associated with injecting in public spaces: a global systematic review and meta-analysis" by Mehrdad Khezri and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…where are people supposed to use besides the public if there are no OPS/SCS? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Going to ISSDP conf in Manchester? Workshop for early/mid career researchers incl community or health service researchers An introduction to theory in qualitative research: How to use theory in your own research and how to read papers using theory Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/issdp-2025...

“The emergence of fentanyl in a stimulant landscape: Un/intentional use, social relations, and developing communities of care” by Jennifer Syvertsen and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…do people seek out fentanyl in your area? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Tranq burn: Exploring the etiology of xylazine-related soft tissue injuries” by Daniel Ciccarone and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…are people in Canada seeing this happen to people using Tranq? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #TranqDope

“The impact of a voluntary alcohol and other drug diversion program on reoffending, imprisonment, and health” by Don Weatherburn and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…what about involuntary diversion programs?! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Exploring the need for overdose prevention centers in England: A qualitative community-based participatory study on the perspectives of people who use drugs in public and semi-public environments” by @ben-scher.bsky.social et al (2025) via IJDP. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very excited to share our new paper in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social 🎉 In this paper we look at experiences of people who use drugs in public and semi public drug consumption environments and the need for OPCs in England.

Those most impacted by drug seizures – PWUD – should be at the center of developing, implementing, and evaluating public health and harm reduction efforts to reduce the harms associated with drug seizures. @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social @msthpetra.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Barriers to accessing medications for opioid use disorder among rural individuals” by Anna M. Morenz and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…what is the main barrier for rural individuals accessing OAT? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to Judy Chang for your #HR25 Award!! So deeply well deserved, and it was a pleasure for AIVL to witness you being celebrated today on this international stage! Sending you so much love. Again congratulations from the bottom of our hearts! 🤩💜✊️

La Trobe University researchers invite all people living with HIV in Australia (over 18 years old) to participate in this important health and wellbeing survey. • 30-45 min to complete • anonymous • www.hivfutures.org.au • the survey will be open until the end of July 2025.

📑 Editor’s Choice📑 “Not just fentanyl: Understanding the complexities of the unregulated opioid supply through results from a drug checking service in British Columbia, Canada” by Pablo Gonzalez-Nieto and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📑Editors Choice📑 “Feasibility of implementing viral hepatitis services into a correctional service facility in Cape Town, South Africa” by Andrew Scheibe and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…are your prisons reaching hepatitis targets? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An Australian-first study published in @mja.com.au found every dollar invested in Australian prison needle and syringe programs could save more than two dollars in treatment costs for hepatitis C and injection-related infections www.burnet.edu.au/knowledge-an...

“Either way, they will use. And so, probably, would you:” A critical discourse analysis of harm reduction portrayal in United States opinion news media” by Hannah A. Carlon and colleagues via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social...harm reduction saves lives! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“The War on Drugs is a war on women: Louisiana's Abortion Law” by Maryanne Alderson Diaz & Dina Perrone (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…how can they schedule these abortion pills? It should be criminal! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“The Police Opioid Seizure Temporal Risk (POSTeR) model of increased exposure to fatal overdose” by @BrandondelPozo and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…do police know that opioid seizures can cause more overdoses? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Experiences of stigmatization among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's drug decriminalization policy: A qualitative study” by Farihah Ali, and colleagues (2025) via IJDP…does decriminalization reduce stigma? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Journey mapping drug seizures among police, public health and local nonprofit professionals, and community members who use drugs” by Bethany Hadden-Clayton and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…what do you think about journey mapping? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Evaluating the potential of wastewater-based epidemiology to estimate the retail illicit drug market size in Europe: A case study” by Maarten Quireyns and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…what drugs are in your wastewater? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our team developed a brand new AIVL Media & Communications Guide by people who use drugs (PWUD) using a harm reduction lens.🔍🤩💊💉💜 It aims to help reporters and people writing for media ensure their coverage promotes an accurate and informed narrative: aivl.org.au/resources/re...

“Attitudes toward and experience with naloxone among people who use drugs in the Southeastern United States” by My Linh H. Le and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…what are the attitudes towards naloxone in your area? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Experience Matters is AIVL's Harm Reduction storytelling series, featuring three short films and three podcast episodes— out now! https://aivl.org.au/resources/emerging-drugs-and-trends/ #internationaldrugcheckingday #harmreductionsaveslives #pwud