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@markamericana.bsky.social
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Reader in Substance Use at LJMU, leading IMS DARD surveillance system for north west/midlands in England. Americana UK Editor in my other life. Who knew drugs and rock & roll went together? 🇵🇸

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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
More common sense from Zack Polanski, don't think there are any credible arguments left against moving to a public health approach www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs
Zack Polanski speaks to BBC South East on the party's new approach ahead of the party's conference.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Audrey has been a fixture at the Liverpool Sunday demos. A hero and shameful she's been treated in this way. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally
Exclusive: Video shows veteran campaigner being dragged and handcuffed and she says bail conditions effectively confine her to her house
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Bus stop in Liverpool today #PalestineAction
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Barbara Cooney @barbaracooney.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
For anyone still doubting the gravity of the Labour Government's move to proscribe Palestine Action, here's the statement of concern from the UN. This is what Starmer's Government has become. #PalestineAction #Starmer #UN www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action
GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.“We are concerned at the unjustified ...
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Happy to share this, the more people do the more it highlights the madness of this ban.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Exactly this. A nuclear armed state, with no inspections ever because they don’t declare them, bombs a country without them and constant inspections.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Remember, everything Netanyahu does is to keep himself out of prison. For the sake of one crook's liberty, tens of thousands of people have been murdered, and now a possible full-scale war has been provoked. Israel must rise up and unseat him.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Speaking today at #ISSDP2025 on the LJMU model of reviewing drug related deaths and the socioeconomic learnings from our panels
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Trump wants the rich to be richer, unions to be weaker, and everyone else to be easier to exploit. He's not ushering in a New Golden Age. He's taking us back to the Gilded Age.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Exactly this.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Can't help thinking the Gary Lineker thing was always going to end this way. If you're a public figure and speak up on Palestine they will probe and dig until they find something. Your only defence is if the organisation you work for isn't supine, which sadly his is 🙁
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It's a great term "hostage politics" because it describes Labour at the moment exactly, although being literally held hostage by Starmer would be comical more than anything
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A fantastic piece well worth reading. Bizarre state of affairs when you have to turn to Wetherspoons to find an ally.
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IMS @phi-ims.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We’re at #HR25 Bogotá, come and see us in the Exhibition Zone 🙌 And view our work in the Posters Space or here: ims.ljmu.ac.uk/posters
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Which other leader with a global audience said this so clearly?
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Exactly this. I always admired Francis for being one of the lone voices with an international platform who spoke out against war and capitalism more broadly. Compassion is such an underrated trait in leaders these days as we are seeing to our cost. What a loss.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The war on drugs - a war on women and any group which already experiences oppression as a useful tool to beat them with. It all connects.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Another magnificent volume, made me laugh a lot but well up in parts too Thanks Chris! @chrismullinexmp.bsky.social
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Mine too. I remember when I worked in Liverpool’s DDU in early 2000s and was trying to get tickets to see him speak at the Phil. He didn’t know me but still phoned me in work to let me know there were none left. The person on reception was like “I have Tony Benn on the phone for you!” A lovely man.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Some very sad details to this story and some lessons for the UK in how not to do things (despite some brilliant examples of community-led harm reduction work) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Oregon abandoned its radical drug law. Then came the mass arrests
Last year, the state ended a trailblazing law decriminalizing possession. Drug users in some counties are now in and out of jail, without lawyers, struggling to get treatment
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Imagine the outrage if this was literally any other country in the world.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Not hugely helpful reporting from the Liverpool Echo today. “As easy to access as crisps” apparently.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We heard more about the fantastic work The Thistle do at our drug related deaths conference on Friday, people are alive now who probably wouldn’t be had it not existed.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Predictable but awful stuff today from Rachel Reeves 🙁
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Another terrifying story from the US for academics who Trump wants to deport for their opposition to US-Israel policy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Judge bars Trump administration from deporting Indian academic over political views
Badar Khan Suri, who teaches at Georgetown University, being held incommunicado in Louisiana ‘staging center’
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Beautiful piece from one of the Just Stop Oil protestors who was incarcerated, written from prison on the eve of his release. As he notes, Mandela and the suffragettes were vilified once. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The prison system is insanely broken’: a climate activist on his experience in jail
George Simonson says you learn about society by seeing how it treats its prisoners – and jail has strengthened his belief that change is crucial
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Remembering this wonderful man today
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Could not be happier to see this scoundrel arrested. Netanyahu next please 🙏
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We may not have Trump but UK universities need to be wary of government over-reach in this area, we should be protecting our students first and foremost.
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Horrific story from the Guardian this week, reporting not perfect and accommodation providers are often in an impossible situation but still. Makes grim reading. search.app/auAY5gVcNGXJ...
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‘It’s hell on earth for me’: how did Joe Black overdose in a homeless hostel with zero tolerance for drugs?
Joe was a gifted musician who struggled with addiction and poor mental health. When he got a place at an award-winning ‘sanctuary’ in London, it sounded perfect. The reality was shockingly different
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Agree. Still the best non-fiction book I've ever read although her most recent Doppelganger comes close
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Prof Viv Hope @vivprof.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We have a funded PhD Studentship at LJMU with an amazing supervisory team (incl. @markamericana.bsky.social ), deadline 30/03/25. "How can UK services best support children and young people (0-18 years) who experience drug or alcohol related parental bereavement: a mixed methods study" FindAPhD.com
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PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe
FindAPhD is a comprehensive guide to PhD studentships and postgraduate research degrees
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
A really interesting paper on an issue we have seen with sad regularity in our drug-related death panels, the impact of child removals and support services on mothers who use drugs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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“Everything is fear based”: Mothers with experience of addiction, child removal and support services
Parental substance use can expose children to harm and risks to their wellbeing, and removal from parents’ care is sometimes necessary. This can resul…
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Good news from Scotland, our 2023 data for the NW of England shows a decline too (the lag is because of coroner inquest delays)
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 29/01/2025
NEWS! Ethnic cleansing is bad, unless we’re the ones doing it, insist Israelis
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Ethnic cleansing is bad, unless we’re the ones doing it, insist Israelis
As National Holocaust Memorial Day came to a close, people were reminded that the most despicable act in human history must never be repeated, except under certain permissive circumstances.
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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
hi! my annual video countdown of the year's best movies will be up on monday, january 13. on the advice of "No Other Land" director Basel Adra, the annual fundraiser i launch along with it is in support of The Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the fundraiser is now live: gofund.me/ae3c2b9f
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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is brilliant
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