In response to Simon Dudley's (Reform UK) comments on Grenfell:

OPEN LETTER RE: DEFUNDING OF ALL SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION SITES IN ONTARIO - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition March 31st 2026 The Honourable Doug Ford, MPPPremier, Minister of Intergovernmental AffairsVia email: premier@ontario.ca | doug.fordco@pc.ola.org The Honourable Sylvia Jones, MPPDeputy Premier, Minist...

Open Letter: Defunding of all Supervised Consumption Sites in Ontario

“Effective law and policy must be grounded in evidence, and shifting funding from SCS elsewhere is not supported by evidence or the public at large.”

#onpoli #cdnpoli

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“Exclusion of LGBTQ+ people from the UK's alcohol and other drug-related death response” by Dean J. Connolly and colleagues (2026) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…interesting viewpoint! Thoughts?

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Our crises are shared: Doug Ford’s government to defund safe consumption sites, drive toxic drug crisis death toll Supervised consumption sites save lives

Our crises are shared:

Doug Ford’s government to defund safe consumption sites, drive toxic drug crisis death toll.

Supervised consumption sites save lives.

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@profarmour.bsky.social one to note for our Forensic students

This is really interesting! Useful for our forensic psychology students too. It's important to reflect on how to make the classroom welcoming for all. Thanks Kev.

Supervised consumption site closure in London will leave gap in services, operator says | CBC News Ontario's surprise decision to stop funding supervised consumption sites resulting in their closure will leave a gaping hole that will put people's lives at risk, according to the operators of London'...

Why the people running London's soon-to-close supervised consumption site say it works.

Province gives operators 90 days before funding ends on June 13.

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At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It is THE fundamental problem. To survive and prosper we must make billionaires history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The brilliant Klara Gurzo presenting her work on inequalities and health. There are two large screens behind Klara with the title of social mobility. The slide so asks the question as to how social mobility can be promoted including intergenerational social mobility, contributing to or constraining the health gradient and stagnation or even decline. Klara is a woman with dark hair and wearing a dark professional suit. She stands behind a lectern and presents with an over ear microphone

Lovely to be at Klara Gurzo's public defense today at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social - brilliant presentation and response

Well done Alex! Look forward to having a read

Drugs, Civil Rights and the Alternative Society: A History of Release Principal Supervisor: Professor Toby Seddon (UCL) Co-Supervisor: Professor Alex Mold (LSHTM) Project Description Background Described as the oldest independent drugs charity in the world, Release w…

New PhD studentship opportunity! Research and write the history of Release, supervised by me and @alexmold.bsky.social! bloomsbury.ac.uk/drugs-civil-...

Well I shall look forward to reading that when it's available. Really interesting stuff @pederclark.bsky.social

Sad to only hear about this now. Really interesting topic. I was at school when this happened and it was a very interesting narrative at the time. I don't suppose there was a recording?

How International Drug Policy Is Increasingly Fragmented - TalkingDrugs The international drug policy landscape has been disrupted in the past couple of years, with two main moral groups emerging in the aftermath.

New on Talking Drugs:
www.talkingdrugs.org/how-internat... Summary of our recent article on how and why consensus fractured at the 2024 Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

An important test case for harm reduction. Well done to the service concerned. May you have many more years of serving your community ahead!

Decriminalization worked. B.C. killed it anyway ⋆ The Breach The province’s drug decriminalization experiment lowered arrests and reduced harm—but it failed a different political test

B.C. cancelled its drug decriminalization pilot, saying it hadn’t “delivered the results” they wanted.

Its results: fewer drug users arrested and traumatized by cops.

@desmondcole.bsky.social explains that when governments cave to moral panic, we lose good policies. breachmedia.ca/decriminaliz...

Delighted to share the final paper from my PhD which explores how Athens’ Drug Consumption Facility operates and is experienced by people in the local community.

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Hey Sacramento PD, stop stealing all of my patients stuff - including their medications - and throwing it away.

I'm really sick and tired of our folks not being able to find them because of sweeps and then when we do, they haven't had their medications in weeks because y'all threw them away.

Wishing I lived in Bristol. This sounds fab

Really interesting piece Mattha.

‘Something has gone fundamentally wrong with health service’ as 32,000 die while on waiting lists since 2022 Figures revealing up to 32,000 people have died while waiting on procedures in Northern Ireland since 2022 are a sign that “something has gone fundamentally wrong” with our health service, an Oppositi...

An important story from N. Ireland. UK Gov is choosing not to fund NI according to need.

Almost 10 x times as many people died on hospital waiting lists in 3 yrs in the North vs 30 yrs of conflict.

'Many people are spending their final days in pain & discomfort, without the treatment they need.'

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.

But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

So much of this holds true for me.

Yes!!!! Instant follow

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

Important publication (by @ginnybraun.bsky.social and co-authors) to add to any critical AI reading list.

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How fabulous. Sending you all the best from Ireland! Kindness really does connect people 💜

Come to Ireland Nick. Lolly (Laura) Spence is the best tour guide

Thanks to Rick Steves, Lynnwood Hygiene Center has a permanent home | MLTnews.com ‘If this place wasn’t here I don’t know how I would’ve survived’ -- Sherman Gillins The Jean Kim Foundation’s (JKF) Hygiene Center in Lynnwood is here to

Our coverage of the closing of a local hygiene center last month spurred a philanthropist to buy the property for $2M. Donors in WA & other states chipped in remaining $500K to secure the land.

Thanks, @ricksteves.bsky.social

Thanks @a-rlnt.bsky.social for reporting

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We are not running out of ideas, I just wrote an entire PhD dissertation full of novel ideas and suggestions for what to do about many social problems. You're just not listening to experts because our ideas are inconvenient for capitalism.

How and why consensus fractured at the 2024 session of the UN Commission on narcotic drugs: an exploratory study of international drug policy constellations using social network analysis and qualitati... Consensus in international drug policy has fractured. It would be useful to explain how and why this occurred.This exploratory study develops and tests theory and methods for describing and explain...

How and why consensus fractured at the 2024 session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs: an exploratory study of international drug policy constellations using social network analysis and qualitative comparative analysis. @deppjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... £0 #OA