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Adam Holland @holla-adam.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today we’re launching a series of films - Drugs: It’s Complicated - intended to tackle the stigma directed towards people who use criminalised drugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NAj...

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Reimagining Drug Use (Drugs: It's Complicated - Film 2)

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Adam Holland @holla-adam.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today we’re launching a series of films - Drugs: It’s Complicated - intended to tackle the stigma directed towards people who use criminalised drugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NAj...

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Reimagining Drug Use (Drugs: It's Complicated - Film 2)

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Adam Holland @holla-adam.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Next week, I'm going to be talking to Kojo Koram about his new book - the Next Fix - in which he explores historical and contemporary developments in drug policy, what is driving emerging models of drug legalisation, and who is benefiting.

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The Next Fix launch with Kojo Koram at Bookhaus

The future of drugs is here, and it’s dangerously unequal. Over the last decade, the status quo around drugs has collapsed. Drugs once sold as safe cures have been revealed as ineffective or dangerou...

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Jenny Scott @jscottuob.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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

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Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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...). A couple of findings ...

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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...

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Jessica Spratt @jessicaspratt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

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 @profhrs.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

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…

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