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The drug useThe drug user movement and environmental activism share more than you think. Join our peer-led Earth Day webinar on how people who use drugs can support environmental protection. Register: https://tinyurl.com/aivlwebinar
#harmreductionsaveslives #pwud #humanrights

Important advocacy by @hrca.bsky.social to end prohibition in NZ. Mark sure to sign and support! 💚✊️💜

As many PWUD smoke, accessible smoke-free nicotine products are crucial harm reduction to help our community members reduce smokingif they want to and take good care of themselves. 💜

NCCRED, AIVL, CAHMA & Harm Reduction Victoria are studying experiences of people who’ve used benzodiazepines from dealers or online markets in the past 12 months. Get involved: nccred.org.au/research/our-research/cu...

Tomorrow!

Join @who.int for the launch of the new consolidated guidance on hepatitis B and C prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery, and monitoring.

📅: 26 March
⏰: 12:30-14:00 CET

Learn more and register: bit.ly/3PHwMZc

‘Catastrophic’: Teenagers as young as 14 buying peptides online Experts say peptides are now a bigger problem than steroids because more people use them and slick marketing on social media understates their risks.

Here in Australia our unregulated peptide market represents a HUGE problem, particularly for our young people.

@uqchsr.bsky.social
@aivl.bsky.social

Read Here: www.afr.com/life-and-lux...

Sniffer dogs and bag searches can make drug danger at festivals more likely, Victorian coroner finds Findings follow death of woman at Marlo Altitude music festival in 2023, with coroner recommending state urgently update 2013 code of practice

Yet another Coronial Inquiry recommends more harm reduction at youth music events & condemns sniffer dogs & hardline policing @aivl.bsky.social @harmreductionintl.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Amazing step of community care in Vietnam 💜

Australia is a real-time example.
In New Zealand: Smoking has dropped significantly because regulated alternatives exist.
Bottom line:
People don’t stop nicotine use — they change how they access it.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE26...

Australia govt policy 15 years ALP,LNP,health establishment:
•⬆️smoking✅
•huge ⬆️illicit trade cigs & vapes✅
•rampant extortion✅
•⬆️insurance cig retailers✅
•⬆️firebombings,homicides✅
•⬇️govt revenue cig excise✅
@algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

We need this barbaric practice of murdering PWUD in Singapore to stop! 💜✊️

Lack of Public Bathrooms Makes Cities More Hostile - Filter Back in February, a woman shared a tale of urban woe on social media. She wrote that her husband had ...

The lack of public bathrooms in US cities harms unhoused people in particular and fuels public hostility, reports
@tganeva.bsky.social.

Experts discuss the drug war-related moral panic that's seen many bathrooms shut down, and ways to reduce risks today:

A full room at our hybrid event at the EU Parliament in Brussels today.

Thanks to the MEPs, our host, partners, and speakers who made this event a success.

Now, we must build on this momentum to accelerate hepatitis elimination and strengthen liver cancer prevention across Europe.

"We Are Doing It to Survive"—In Cape Town, the Drug Trade Feels Inevitable - Filter Cape Town, South Africa, is a city renowned for its breathtaking landscapes and vibrant culture. Woven into the fabric of ...

“Our goal is to establish dominance by offering better drugs and protection,” BJ, an upper-level supplier in his early 30s, told Filter. “It’s about building trust and ensuring that everyone benefits."

Exactly right!

Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), like methadone & buprenorphine, are the most effective treatments for people struggling with addiction to opioids. They promote recovery and save lives by reducing cravings & withdrawal symptoms, while cutting overdose risk in half. But access is at risk👇

Rezenopy, the 10 Mg Naloxone Nasal Spray, Enters the OD Antidote Market - Filter Two years after its approval by the Food and Drug Administration, opioid-overdose reversal product Rezenopy is about to make its ...

At 10 mg of naloxone per nasal spray, each dose of Rezenopy is the equivalent of two-and-a-half doses of Narcan. It’s the highest-dose naloxone nasal spray available—a distinction that comes with no proven benefits to people at risk of overdose

filtermag.org/rezenopy-10-...

“GLP-1 receptor agonists .. associated with ⬇️risk of a broad array of incident SUDs [Substance Use Disorders], suggesting potential preventive effects .. range of substances; GLP-1 receptor agonists .. also associated with ⬇️ risk of SUD related adverse clinical outcomes”

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Really well done blog and Substances & Psychosis from @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social

Scholarship are open for #APSAD26 8-11 Nov on Walyalup (Fremantle) for First Peoples. Students & ECRs, Frontline Workers & Community Organisation workers. Scholarships are only open to APSAD members - make sure your membership is current or apply today https://www.apsadconference.com.au/scholarships

We're pleased to continue our Abstract Mentor Program in #APSAD26 providing an opportunity for those less experienced with preparing abstracts to get input and increase your chances of being accepted into the program.
More information - www.apsadconference.com.au/abstract-mentor-program

Hep C spreads through blood-to-blood contact. Stay safe: use sterile gear, keep your own kit, don’t share. Find your NSP: https://aivl.org.au/nsp-directory #IYR2026 #livefreefromhepc #hepc #eliminatehepc #Itsyourright2 #harmreductionworks #loveyourliver #druguserslivesmatter

Join us for our webinar: Ageing as a Women Who Uses Drugs. Wednesday 11 March 2026 at 12pm AEDT! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vzNn... #pwud #wwud #humanrights #narcofeminism

Jailing people who use drugs isn’t justice! Join our webinar on why criminalisation is a social justice failure.
🗓 Feb 20 | 12pm AEDT
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pk3X...
#pwud #harmreduction #humanrights #drugpolicy #prisonreform

We want to better understand how people use K, why they use K, and how using K has affected them :)
We want to improve consumer health and inform ketamine harm reduction.
If you are interested in finding out more, please use the link below:
https://redcap.link/CompletetheAustralianKetamineSurvey

We’re proud to launch It’s Your Right 2. A national, peer-led hep C campaign reaching communities everywhere, including in custody and post-release. Testing is easy. Treatment is simple. Clearing hep C is possible. #IYR2026 #ItsYourRight2 #eliminatehepc #harmreductionworks

Today marks a day of mourning. We focus on the loss of land, culture, and devasting impacts of colonisation. Always was, Always will be, Aboriginal land. The AIVL team will be attending invasion day rallies in the areas we are based in.

To care for our young people and support their health and safety, we have to invest in harm reduction and seriously consider legalising and regulating the supplies of peptides. 💙💜

Amazing piece of work from some of our AIVL closest partners and AIVL peer leaders highlighting some of the current challenges and opportunities with community-research partnerships! 💜💙