Jo Neill
@profjoneill.bsky.social
Prof of Psychopharmacology. Chair of DrugScience Psychedelics Working Group. Drug law reform & Psychedelic medicine.
Come & join us @officialuom.bsky.social for this ground-breaking psychedelics event. Wed 2nd July 2PM. Feat: @profdavidnutt.bsky.social, elite athletes, Sara Tai, Nige Netzband, Grace Blest-Hopley. Supported by @bapsych.bsky.social, @drugscience.bsky.social
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Psychedelics and Trauma Recovery In Elite Athletes
Join us for a deep dive into how psychedelics can support elite athletes in healing from trauma and reaching their full potential!
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June 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Come & join us @officialuom.bsky.social for this ground-breaking psychedelics event. Wed 2nd July 2PM. Feat: @profdavidnutt.bsky.social, elite athletes, Sara Tai, Nige Netzband, Grace Blest-Hopley. Supported by @bapsych.bsky.social, @drugscience.bsky.social
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Thank u to Psychedelic Alpha for an excellent summary of this POST report & highlighting the barriers to research posed by Scedule 1 status of psychedelics.
UK Psychedelic Research Hindered by Red Tape, Experts Tell Lawmakers in Parliamentary Report
In our latest, written by Charles Bliss, we explore the report and speak to its co-author, @charlotte2153.bsky.social MP, and @profjoneill.bsky.social.
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In our latest, written by Charles Bliss, we explore the report and speak to its co-author, @charlotte2153.bsky.social MP, and @profjoneill.bsky.social.
psychedelicalpha.com/news/uk-psyc...
UK Psychedelic Research Hindered by Red Tape, Experts Tell Lawmakers in Parliamentary Report - Psychedelic Alpha
A new UK parliamentary report outlines the evidence base for psychedelic-assisted therapy in mental health treatment while highlighting regulatory hurdles that hinder research in the country.
psychedelicalpha.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thank u to Psychedelic Alpha for an excellent summary of this POST report & highlighting the barriers to research posed by Scedule 1 status of psychedelics.
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Prof Jo Neill (@profjoneill.bsky.social) tells UK politicians:
“Please move psychedelics—all psychedelics—out of Schedule 1 and enable more research to happen in the UK. We absolutely need to bring this to the forefront of the debate in Parliament.”
“Please move psychedelics—all psychedelics—out of Schedule 1 and enable more research to happen in the UK. We absolutely need to bring this to the forefront of the debate in Parliament.”
February 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Prof Jo Neill (@profjoneill.bsky.social) tells UK politicians:
“Please move psychedelics—all psychedelics—out of Schedule 1 and enable more research to happen in the UK. We absolutely need to bring this to the forefront of the debate in Parliament.”
“Please move psychedelics—all psychedelics—out of Schedule 1 and enable more research to happen in the UK. We absolutely need to bring this to the forefront of the debate in Parliament.”
This is a great report. Delighted to have been able to contribute!
New @ukparliament.parliament.uk report just released.
Our Directors of Research @alexpiot.bsky.social & Psychedelic Policy & Regulation Timmy Davis were pleased to contribute, alongside @profdavidnutt.bsky.social, @profjoneill.bsky.social and others.
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Our Directors of Research @alexpiot.bsky.social & Psychedelic Policy & Regulation Timmy Davis were pleased to contribute, alongside @profdavidnutt.bsky.social, @profjoneill.bsky.social and others.
post.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Psychedelic-assisted therapy for mental health: Policy considerations
Psychedelic-assisted therapy for mental health conditions is being researched in clinical trials. There are associated benefits, risks and policy considerations.
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February 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is a great report. Delighted to have been able to contribute!
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“We found large curricular gaps related to the administration of medications for opioid use disorder and treating opioid overdose and withdrawal, as well as a significant prevalence of stigmatizing attitudes. Renewed efforts are needed to implement comprehensive and destigmatizing SUD curricula.”
February 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
“We found large curricular gaps related to the administration of medications for opioid use disorder and treating opioid overdose and withdrawal, as well as a significant prevalence of stigmatizing attitudes. Renewed efforts are needed to implement comprehensive and destigmatizing SUD curricula.”
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Drug Policy Constellations: The Role of Power and Morality in the Making of Drug Policy in the UK. An introductory thread. 1/11 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/drug-policy-...
Drug Policy Constellations
Drug Policy Constellations - The Role of Power and Morality in the Making of Drug Policy in the UK; Drawing on the author’s participation in high-level policy discussions, this book presents three key...
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February 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Drug Policy Constellations: The Role of Power and Morality in the Making of Drug Policy in the UK. An introductory thread. 1/11 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/drug-policy-...
Our next Street drugs discussions will be on nitazenes. Friday 21st Feb at 12PM, all free. See u there & bring your Qs! @drugscience.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Our next Street drugs discussions will be on nitazenes. Friday 21st Feb at 12PM, all free. See u there & bring your Qs! @drugscience.bsky.social
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Off to London to discuss some preliminary findings from our evaluation of police-led drug diversion schemes. #PDD healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.....
Evaluating police drug diversion in England: protocol for a realist evaluation - Health & Justice
There is increasing international interest in the use of police drug diversion schemes that offer people suspected of minor drug-related offences an educative or therapeutic intervention as an alterna...
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January 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Off to London to discuss some preliminary findings from our evaluation of police-led drug diversion schemes. #PDD healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.....
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Our most recent Street Drugs Discussions is out! A fantastic conversation with the scientific experts & a brilliant expert by experience @drugscience.bsky.social
Our most recent Street Drugs Discussions is out! A fantastic conversation with the scientific experts & a brilliant expert by experience @drugscience.bsky.social
Street Drug Discussions - ADHD and substance use
YouTube video by Drug Science
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January 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Our most recent Street Drugs Discussions is out! A fantastic conversation with the scientific experts & a brilliant expert by experience @drugscience.bsky.social
Our most recent Street Drugs Discussions is out! A fantastic conversation with the scientific experts & a brilliant expert by experience @drugscience.bsky.social
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everyone interested in #epilepsy should listen to this www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... outrageous the lengths these parents have to go to to keep their children alive. denying cannabis to these kids is the biggest medical scandal since the Bristol Heart one exposed by drphilhammond
File on 4 Investigates - Cannabis Kids: The parents breaking the law to help their children with epilepsy - BBC Sounds
An investigation reveals children are being given illegal cannabis to treat epilepsy.
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January 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
everyone interested in #epilepsy should listen to this www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... outrageous the lengths these parents have to go to to keep their children alive. denying cannabis to these kids is the biggest medical scandal since the Bristol Heart one exposed by drphilhammond
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How we lobbied for a change in Irish law to allow for the existence of Supervised Injecting Facilities. Learn about four successful strategies employed in lobbying for the Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017.
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Making the case for Supervised Injecting Facilities | Tony Duffin | TEDxDublinInstituteofTechnology
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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December 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
How we lobbied for a change in Irish law to allow for the existence of Supervised Injecting Facilities. Learn about four successful strategies employed in lobbying for the Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017.
youtu.be/z9GV0L4ziB0?...
youtu.be/z9GV0L4ziB0?...
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What sways public opinion? An experimental study on moral vs. evidence-based arguments for drug harm reductionhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09687637.2024.2440413
What sways public opinion? An experimental study on moral vs. evidence-based arguments for drug harm reduction
Background: Unlike evidence-based approaches, public drug policies are shaped more by political factors, with public opinion playing a key role. We hypothesized that using moral arguments in favor ...
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December 20, 2024 at 1:15 PM
What sways public opinion? An experimental study on moral vs. evidence-based arguments for drug harm reductionhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09687637.2024.2440413
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The #drugpolicyratchet looks set for another turn, even though the ACMD has repeatedly found no evidence that changing the class of a drug has any effect on levels of use. www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #ketamine
Home Office may reclassify ketamine in response to record levels of use
Illegal use in UK seems to reflect growth of unregulated market in US, where its high-profile users include Elon Musk
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January 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The #drugpolicyratchet looks set for another turn, even though the ACMD has repeatedly found no evidence that changing the class of a drug has any effect on levels of use. www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #ketamine
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We had a similar problem in a clinical trial where we pre-screened 150 people for a treatment resistant depression study and had zero people enroll... there were so many exclusion criteria to overcome.
An article published as part of APA's 2025 Trends Report discusses psychedelics research, including an MGH study of psilocybin in TRD that saw the team screen 700 patients without a single one meeting inclusion/exclusion criteria.
www.apa.org/monitor/2025...
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January 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We had a similar problem in a clinical trial where we pre-screened 150 people for a treatment resistant depression study and had zero people enroll... there were so many exclusion criteria to overcome.
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In a very special episode of the Drug Science Podcast, Professor David Nutt sits down with Drug Science Community Members to answer their burning questions: drugscience.org.uk/p...
January 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
In a very special episode of the Drug Science Podcast, Professor David Nutt sits down with Drug Science Community Members to answer their burning questions: drugscience.org.uk/p...
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@bsky.app Pls share! We're creating new resources for women about alcohol during pregnancy and early motherhood. Our 2nd coproduction session is Mon 13th Jan in #Liverpool city centre. We need #women (and partners) who are trying to get pregnant, #pregnant, #mums with kids up to 5 years old
January 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
@bsky.app Pls share! We're creating new resources for women about alcohol during pregnancy and early motherhood. Our 2nd coproduction session is Mon 13th Jan in #Liverpool city centre. We need #women (and partners) who are trying to get pregnant, #pregnant, #mums with kids up to 5 years old
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The effectiveness of #harmreduction services in suppressing HIV infections is not just shown by evaluations of their introduction, but also by what happens when you take them away, as seen in Alberta and - in this study by @ctemenos.bsky.social - Hungary. www.ijurr.org/article/from...
FROM BUDAPEST TO BRUSSELS: Discursive and Material Failure in Mobile Policy - IJURR
This article introduces an analytic of discursive and material failure, developing a spatial grammar for analysing both the discursive framing of policies as failed and the actually existing processes...
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December 31, 2024 at 2:57 PM
The effectiveness of #harmreduction services in suppressing HIV infections is not just shown by evaluations of their introduction, but also by what happens when you take them away, as seen in Alberta and - in this study by @ctemenos.bsky.social - Hungary. www.ijurr.org/article/from...
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💥The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, has just published an important editorial. A selection:
« Problem drug use and physical dependency—contrary to popular belief—only affect around 10% of those who use drugs. […] The disastrous impact of
« Problem drug use and physical dependency—contrary to popular belief—only affect around 10% of those who use drugs. […] The disastrous impact of
December 30, 2024 at 3:53 PM
💥The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, has just published an important editorial. A selection:
« Problem drug use and physical dependency—contrary to popular belief—only affect around 10% of those who use drugs. […] The disastrous impact of
« Problem drug use and physical dependency—contrary to popular belief—only affect around 10% of those who use drugs. […] The disastrous impact of
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amend our approach. »
🙌👏👏👏
They call for "Humane, evidence-based strategies" and a real Harm Reduction policy. We're making progress 🥹♥️
Read the article here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🙌👏👏👏
They call for "Humane, evidence-based strategies" and a real Harm Reduction policy. We're making progress 🥹♥️
Read the article here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Harm reduction must replace punitive drug policies
The so-called war on drugs has failed. In the last century, countries have increasingly attempted absolute prohibition of drug use, often via penal measures. Despite global action, these policies have not deterred drug use: we have reached record levels of “abuse, illicit cultivation and production and manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances”, as acknowledged at the 2024 UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Drug trafficking networks have become increasingly sophisticated and violent, and deaths related to drug use have increased.
www.thelancet.com
December 30, 2024 at 3:53 PM
amend our approach. »
🙌👏👏👏
They call for "Humane, evidence-based strategies" and a real Harm Reduction policy. We're making progress 🥹♥️
Read the article here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🙌👏👏👏
They call for "Humane, evidence-based strategies" and a real Harm Reduction policy. We're making progress 🥹♥️
Read the article here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Important study on expectations in psychedelic research: for patients with low pre-tx expectancy about escitalopam, psilocybin worked better than escit., but no such effect for pts with higher expectancy for escit. No similar effect for expectancy about psilocybin.
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December 15, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Important study on expectations in psychedelic research: for patients with low pre-tx expectancy about escitalopam, psilocybin worked better than escit., but no such effect for pts with higher expectancy for escit. No similar effect for expectancy about psilocybin.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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My article on sociological approaches to the study of drug use and drug policy, from 2011. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 16, 2024 at 6:26 AM
My article on sociological approaches to the study of drug use and drug policy, from 2011. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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‘Banned and 'forgotten' drug: What happened to khat?’ www.bbc.com/news/article...
Khat: What happened to the banned and 'forgotten' drug?
A researcher says 10 years after it was made illegal in the UK, khat is still being widely sold.
www.bbc.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:54 PM
‘Banned and 'forgotten' drug: What happened to khat?’ www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Always exciting to receive the investigational product for a new clinical trial. First time I’ve had one go through a ceremonial blessing process (karakia and waiata) though … (see below for details).
Seen Māori protests/haka on social media?
Seen panels complaining of indigenous exclusion in psychedelic science?
Check out our new pre-print:
“Tū Wairua: Development of an Indigenous Rongoā Māori Approach to Healing with Psilocybin Containing Mushrooms”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Seen panels complaining of indigenous exclusion in psychedelic science?
Check out our new pre-print:
“Tū Wairua: Development of an Indigenous Rongoā Māori Approach to Healing with Psilocybin Containing Mushrooms”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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December 12, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Always exciting to receive the investigational product for a new clinical trial. First time I’ve had one go through a ceremonial blessing process (karakia and waiata) though … (see below for details).
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New 🧪 report out from our team. We conducted an epidemiological survey of 499 people who use drugs in central Edmonton to assess their health, wellbeing, and service needs. #yeg
December 11, 2024 at 8:19 PM
New 🧪 report out from our team. We conducted an epidemiological survey of 499 people who use drugs in central Edmonton to assess their health, wellbeing, and service needs. #yeg