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Monica Barratt

@monicabarratt.bsky.social
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Drugs, harm reduction, humane drug policies, drug checking, drug markets, social equity. Academic + advocate. Curtin, Loop, Bluelight.

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Tim Piatkowski @piatkowskitim.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Wave 3 (n=105 samples) from our World First Steroid Checking Trial in @sajamersa.bsky.social: 22% mislabelled 50% underdosed. Health behaviour change (n=117px) was driven by quality concern. @uqchsr.bsky.social @swanseauni.bsky.social @burnetinstitute.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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Behavioural Intentions Associated with Exposure to Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Testing Results: A Two-Phase, Multi-Wave Intervention Trial - Timothy Piatkowski, Ross Coomber, Cameron Francis, Emma Kil...
Introduction: People who use anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) face health risks from illicit markets and limited tailored harm reduction services. This study ...
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Tim Piatkowski @piatkowskitim.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
A co-designed health conversation tool for AAS harm reduction. @jasonferris22.bsky.social @chenealpuljevic.bsky.social @monicabarratt.bsky.social @emilystockings.bsky.social + many others. @uqchsr.bsky.social @griffithcmh.bsky.social @matildacentreusyd.bsky.social doi.org/10.1186/s129...
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Co-producing a peer-led health conversation tool for the health services workforce to facilitate safer use of anabolic–androgenic steroids - Harm Reduction Journal
Background Illicit anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) use poses physical and psychosocial risks. These issues are exacerbated by inadequate public health responses and well-meaning yet inadequately tra...
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Tim Piatkowski @piatkowskitim.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New collab in @apsad-dar.bsky.social shows people who inject steroids still lack clear guidance. Peer-led approaches could change that. doi.org/10.1111/dar.... @jasonferris22.bsky.social @monicabarratt.bsky.social @drsuzinielsen.bsky.social @uqchsr.bsky.social @griffithcmh.bsky.social
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Creating Safer Injecting Practices Through Community‐Led Harm Reduction: Lessons From People Who Use Steroids for the Alcohol and Other Drug Sector
Introduction Research on anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) use has addressed health outcomes, social dynamics, service access and risk management strategies. Yet little work has examined how these d...
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Thomas Friis Sogaard @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Call for papers for SI on Hybrid Drug Markets. Will explore the blurred on- and offline aspects of drug markets, drug use & harm reduction. Edited by @monicabarratt.bsky.social @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social, @Robin van der Sanden. Abstracts 20 Sep. www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
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Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction
This special issue develops a more integrated approach to conceptualising relationships between the digital and physical in drug markets and harm reduction using concept of “digital-physical hybridity...
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APSAD DAR @apsad-dar.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🔓Risk communication about high-dose MDMA: Impact of a hypothetical drug alert on future MDMA use Joel Keygan, Breanna Willoughby, @psychopharmres.bsky.social @monicabarratt.bsky.social, Amy Peacock @latrobeuni.bsky.social @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 20/02/2025
📣 NEW: BEGUN, THE INDEXING OF THE NIH WEBSITE ARCHIVE HAS. Unfortunately I wasn't able to grab the NIH content until last week so it's possible that some of it had already been disappeared, but this includes anything which was there as of 2/13/25: acasignups.net/nih-website
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NIH.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
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APSAD DAR @apsad-dar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🔓Development, dissemination & community response to 1st community notice on misrepresented illicit steroids in circulation in Australia @piatkowskitim.bsky.social @ivolpe.bsky.social @monicabarratt.bsky.social @cresswell-sl.bsky.social @karenblakey.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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APSAD DAR @apsad-dar.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Based on research available Open Access - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @dremmadavies.bsky.social @ppermanhowe.bsky.social Jennifer Seddon @piatkowskitim.bsky.social @chenealpuljevic.bsky.social puljevic.bsky.social @monicabarratt.bsky.social Adam Winstock @jasonferris22.bsky.social
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Barriers to the use of no and low alcohol products in high‐risk drinkers
Introduction Consuming no or low (NoLo) alcohol products in place of regular strength alcohol products could reduce alcohol-related harms in high risk drinkers. This study provides a new perspective...
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Tim Piatkowski @piatkowskitim.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Steroid checking 'Wave 3' Results Are In! We have now analysed >100 samples across 3 waves. 🔎 Key Findings: ✔️ 78% contained expected steroid ⚠️ 22% contained unexpected steroid 📉 50% samples underdosed 📊 Full report: hi-ground.org/app/uploads/...
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APSAD DAR @apsad-dar.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"Most patients were unaware they were using nitazenes. Given their potency, this has important implications for harm, particularly in those not intentionally using opioids." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Clinical toxicity of nitazene detections in two Australian emergency department toxicosurveillance systems
Introduction Nitazenes are a group of potent synthetic opioids that have had increasing prominence as novel psychoactive drugs in the last 5 years. We describe emergency department nitazene-related ...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/01/2025
Something to think about with the Ross Ulbricht pardon. The feds are still sitting on $6.5 billion in bitcoin seized from silk road. If Trump gives it back to Ulbricht, he could easily pay back Trump by trading it for Trump coin. A potential bribe of millions or billions of dollars for a pardon.
"Headline from Fortune Crypto: 'The federal government just got the greenlight to sell $6.5 billion in Bitcoin seized from Silk Road,' written by Catherine McGrath, published on January 9, 2025, at 5:00 PM EST. The article focuses on regulatory developments surrounding Bitcoin."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/01/2025
President Trump granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace. Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
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Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.
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Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.
The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?
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Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I'm appealing to colleagues and the organisations I work with to stop using X/Twitter. The platform now extracts profit by promoting a racist who hates modern Britain, incites violence and is in continued contempt of court. Continuing to use X is not compatible with our values.
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Bob Lawrence 🔵 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Today's lesson discusses the American health care system for those in countries where their system provides care for free or reasonable fees. 👇
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Kathleen Cochran @momsforallpaths.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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Kathleen Cochran @momsforallpaths.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
IRELAND’S FIRST EVER medically supervised drug injection facility (MSIF) is set to open in Dublin in December, according to the charity overseeing the service.#harmreduction saves lives. www.thejournal.ie/supervised-d...
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'This will save lives' - Ireland's first supervised drug injection centre to open this December
Merchants Quay Ireland said the facility will host medical staff who can “intervene when overdoses happen”.
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Monica Barratt @monicabarratt.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I don’t really understand why people want to use a completely random mix of unknown substances either!
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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It is disappointing that we were only given one day to respond to the proposed social media ban for under 16s. We dropped everything and were one of 15,000 submissions. www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/25/t...
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Labor gave the public one day to weigh in on teen social media ban. It got 15,000 responses
Elon Musk helped boost interest in the inquiry by making a viral post on X. Then the submissions started flooding in.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/11/2024
AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warn
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AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warn
David Attenborough among famous people whose voices have been exploited by fraudsters It’s the new badge of celebrity status that nobody wants. Jennifer Aniston, Oprah Winfrey and Kylie Jenner have all had their voices cloned by fraudsters. Online…
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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Working on AI/machine learning and addiction? We have a super broad call for papers out for a special issue in Drug and Alcohol Review. Papers are due by March 1st. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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Drug and Alcohol Review Call for Papers: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Substance Use and Addiction Research
Guest Editors: Emmanuel Kuntsche, Jason Ferris, Zhen He, Kathryn Backholer, Gary Chan and Benjamin Riordan
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.
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Monica Barratt @monicabarratt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Thanks for making this. I love what you’ve named it. Basically Australians who are into drugs 😂
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Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
These brave doctors are following history. We have always been forced to use civil disobedience to save lives: supervised injection, narcan, needle, distribution, safe supply. Unjust laws are meant to be broken. Respect. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/v...
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Vancouver Island doctors set up overdose prevention sites without government blessing
The sites are being set up at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria and Nanaimo General Hospital, and organizers plan to run them all through this week.
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Dr. Nab @nabarund.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Preview for our November newsletter: the 11 new substances we found in the drug supply in October. Each has a story and context we’ll go into, so sign up now opioiddatalab.ghost.io
These are the substances we detected for the first time in drug samples sent to our lab. These were certainly circulating before then, and wasn't necessarily found by themselves. 

pyrazolam
canrenone
desalkyflurazepam
spironolactone
atropine
fluoxetine
delta-4(8)-iso-THC
AB-MDMSBA
N-(1-phenethyl-4-piperidyl)-N-benzylpropanamide
etodesnitazene
phenazolam
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Fiona Measham @fmeasham.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Big announcement! The Loop has started delivering the 1st UK onsite, Home Office-licensed drug testing, at the 2 biggest clubs! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Drumsheds and Warehouse Project bring in drug testing
The venues, in Manchester and London, invite charity The Loop to test drugs behind the scenes.
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Fiona Measham @fmeasham.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
MDMA-related deaths in the UK increased from 51 in 2022 to 79 in 2023, the 3rd highest rate on record (ONS 24). These were mostly young people not knowing the strength of what they took, utterly avoidable with rapid & accurate testing & messaging on MDMA strength & dosage. #HarmReduction
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Isabelle Volpe @ivolpe.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
UNSW's Drug Policy Modelling Program is hosting an evidence hub to answer your drug policy questions for the NSW Drug Summit. Includes an evidence brief from me and Monica Barratt on drug checking services: what are they, and what do we know about them? www.unsw.edu.au/research/spr...
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Evidence hub for the NSW Drug Summit 2024 | Social Policy Research Centre – UNSW Sydney
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