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Adam Holland
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(he/him) Public Health Consultant researching drugs and stigma at the University of Bristol
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Adam Holland @holla-adam.bsky.social · Jun 24
If you're 18-30 and live in the UK please fill out this survey for the opportunity to be interviewed for our research on attitudes towards people who use drugs (if interviewed you'll receive a £15 Love2Shop voucher!)

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Adam Holland @holla-adam.bsky.social · Jun 24
If you're 18-30 and live in the UK please fill out this survey for the opportunity to be interviewed for our research on attitudes towards people who use drugs (if interviewed you'll receive a £15 Love2Shop voucher!)

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Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social · May 31
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 ...
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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Adam Holland @holla-adam.bsky.social · Mar 13
We're looking for people aged 18-30 in the UK to take part in research on attitudes towards people who use drugs. Sign up link here: bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Adam Holland @holla-adam.bsky.social · Mar 13
We're looking for people aged 18-30 in the UK to take part in research on attitudes towards people who use drugs. Sign up link here: bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Jessica Spratt @jessicaspratt.bsky.social · Nov 27
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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Chris B @bassbehaviour.bsky.social · Jan 7
Looking forward to seeing the amazing crew from @transformdrugs.bsky.social next month

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Sheffield: Take Drugs Seriously
Drugs can be dangerous but does banning them cause more harm than good?
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · Jan 18
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 · Jan 18
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...
'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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Prof Harry Sumnall @profhrs.bsky.social · Jan 18
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...
'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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Adam Holland @holla-adam.bsky.social · Jan 17
"There were 23,724 seizures of unknown substances, a 27% increase on the previous year (18,643) . . . Where a drug is described as ‘unknown’ or ‘drug not known’, this generally means that police forces or Border Force have seized substances which they cannot easily identify".
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Adam Holland @holla-adam.bsky.social · Jan 17
Thanks for flagging this report Harry - really interesting. I wonder if some of the 'unknown drugs' might also be nitazenes - depending on what testing modalities they're using....
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Prof Viv Hope @vivprof.bsky.social · Nov 18
Great to see this published the first of the outputs from the iHOST Project. Great collaborative work with colleagues across the UK incl. @jscottuob.bsky.social @niamhrelease.bsky.social @danlewer.bsky.social
Improving hospital care for people who use drugs: deliberative process development of a clinical guideline for opioid withdrawal management - Harm Reduction Journal
Background Management of opioid withdrawal in hospital settings is crucial to improve treatment completion and health outcomes among patients who use opioids, such as heroin. Evidence-based clinical g...
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