"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...

“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...

“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...

“Prevalence and correlates of multiple injections per injection episode among people who inject drugs in rural U.S. communities” by L. Sarah Mixson and colleagues (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social. Do people inject more in rural areas versus urban areas? 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...

📝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...

“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.

“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...

📑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...

“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...

📑 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...

“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...

“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...

“The relationship between patient-centred care for substance use disorders and patient outcomes: A scoping review” by Bronwyn Myers and colleagues (2025) via IJDP…how important is patient centred care in your area? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“The association between social capital and drug overdose mortality in the United States” by Tarfa Verinumbe and colleagues (2025) via IJDP…what’s the association between social capital and drug overdose in your country? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Policing during a period of drug decriminalization: Experiences of people who use drugs in Oregon, USA” by Danielle Good et al (2025) via IJDP…how involved should police be in decriminalizing drugs? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“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 et al (2025) via IJDP…whats in your drug supply? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Bridging the evidence and the politics: Implementation trial of supervised injectable opioid treatment (SIOT) in Australia” by Professor Alison Ritter et al (2025) via International Journal of Drug Policy…do people consider SIOT a form of safe supply? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Characteristics of supervised injection site clients and factors associated with requiring overdose intervention, Montreal, Canada, 2018–2022” by Camille Zolopa et al (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…what are characteristics important for SCS? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Basically every safety protocol we have in place to protect against overdose, parents can't access”: Mothers who use unregulated drugs’ experiences of dual public health emergencies by Dr. Jade Boyd (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Characteristics of supervised injection site clients and factors associated with requiring overdose intervention, Montreal, Canada, 2018–2022” by Camille Zolopa et al (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social great read out of Montreal, Canada! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Motivations for and perspectives of medication diversion among clients of a safer opioid supply program in Toronto, Canada” by Lucas Martignetti and colleagues (2025) via IJDP…have your thoughts on diversion changed? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Diversion #Saves #Lives

“How does climate change impact people who use alcohol and other drugs? A scoping review of peer reviewed literature” by Sarah MacLean and colleagues (2024) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…how harmful is the war on drugs on climate change? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ClimateChange

“Suboptimal uptake and placement of a mandatory alcohol pregnancy warning label in Australia” by Tazmin Davies et al (2024) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…what kind of warnings around alcohol consumption for pregnant women do you have in your region? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“A place-based spatial analysis of racial inequities in overdose in St. Louis County Missouri, United States” by Philip L Marotta et al (2024) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…what’s the racial disparity in overdose in your region? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Racial #Overdoses