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Release responded to the Department of Health and Social Care’s Consultation on Expanding access to Naloxone. We are broadly supportive of any proposals which aid the adoption of the lowest possible t...

Help sustain a cooperative, worker-led bookshop!

This project investigates the political, legal, and administrative contexts that enabled the opening of The Thistle Safer Drug Consumption Facility (SDCF) in Glasgow in January 2025—the first such ser...

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…

Vacancies (Paid) Joint Head of Legal Services or a Legal Director We’re recruiting for one senior leadership role, and we’re intentionally keeping it open. Depending on your experience, we’ll appoint ...

A new synthetic opioid is hitting the streets of London - and leaving many dead.

Questions mount over delays in informing frontline services about the threat from new synthetic opioid cychlorphine.

A guided tour of The Thistle, the UK’s first legal safer drug consumption room in Glasgow, where care, dignity and life-saving harm reduction come first.

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If you're affected by drug or alcohol issues, past offending, homelessness or unemployment: help is out there!

A one-day event bringing together those working to decriminalise sex work, drugs, mental health, migration, abortion and trans life

The error - affecting England and Wales - raises concerns about the impact on the government's approach to drug deaths.

Health officials say the U.K’s first supervised drug clinic is saving lives. They’re still fighting to convince locals.

Synthetic opioids called nitazenes, which are up to 500 times stronger than heroin, are appearing in the capital in the form of pills, powders and vapes

Greater Manchester Police's on naloxone response "disappointing" and reasoning "raises serious questions", says MP Tom Morrison.

All eyes have been on Calton in Glasgow's East End since the UK’s first Safer Drug Consumption Facility began in January, allowing people to…

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Behind cautious language, the data expose a system that criminalises, harms, and undermines health.

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The Government has confirmed it will repeal the outdated Vagrancy Act 1824 by Spring next year, to ensure rough sleeping is no longer a criminal offence.