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The Drugs Wheel by Mark Adley, Guy Jones & Michael Linnell is an educational and harm reduction tool, licensed under Creative Commons, currently 19 international versions www.thedrugswheel.com @markadley.bsky.social

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

The Drugs Wheel - Open Access paper describes the history of the development of taxonomies of psychoactive drug use, and discusses the conceptualization of three recent taxonomies: considering their application in education, treatment, and harm reduction settings www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jump-starting the conversation about harm reduction: making sense of drug effects

This paper describes the history of the development of taxonomies of psychoactive drug use, and discusses the conceptualization of three recent taxonomies: comparing their features, and considering...

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Aug 1

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Aug 1

New UK version of the Drugs Wheel - redesign, new drugs, and the depressant/dissociative debate 🧐

Download and details: www.thedrugswheel.com?page=DrugsWh...

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Aug 1

New UK version of the Drugs Wheel - redesign, new drugs, and the depressant/dissociative debate 🧐

Download and details: www.thedrugswheel.com?page=DrugsWh...

The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Apr 23

It certainly wasn’t taken as criticism - it’s a most excellent point that I passed onto their team. It was more to clarify that in most non-UK cases my role is to help out with the designs.

The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Apr 23

Excellent point, I’ll pass it on to their team. When it comes to localised versions such as this I leave it up to local teams to decide the contents. The polydrug approach isn’t working for everyone, but the joy of the Wheel being Creative Commons is letting it evolve without any central ‘command’.

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Apr 23

Loving their redesign of the Club Drugs Wheel with effects in a table below - better for legibility and will make future designs much easier! The Catalan version is hopefully coming soon…

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Apr 23

Also - the Polydrugs Wheel adopted by www.drugsinfo.nl and embedded into their training

www.drugswiel.nl

Ontdek het drugswiel

Het Drugswiel is een uniek model dat op een heldere en gestructureerde manier inzicht biedt in de werking en effecten van verschillende middelen.

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Apr 23

New training announced by @theloopuk.bsky.social
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2025 Eventbrite Trainings

Deep Dives on Nitazenes, Ketamine, MDMA. Harm Reduction: Theories & Applications, Chemsex, Responding to Drug Use the Night Time Economy, Drug Trends 2025, Responding to Drug Use at Festivals and...

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LEAP UK @ukleap.bsky.social · Jan 13

Blog from @transformdrugs.bsky.social on the opening of the UK’s first safer consumption site. So many people from so many areas have worked tirelessly to make this happen. It’s an emotional journey on many fronts.

transformdrugs.org/blog/success...

Success - UK’s First Safer Drug Consumption Facility Opens | Transform

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Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · Dec 22

UK to open its first safe drug consumption room amid soaring deaths
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
#DrugSky #HarmReduction #YesToSCS

UK to open its first safe drug consumption room amid soaring deaths

The Thistle in Glasgow aims to save lives by providing a supervised environment in ‘Europe’s drug deaths capital’

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Haven't quite figured out how to retweet from X to here, so....

The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Jump-starting the conversation about harm reduction: making sense of drug effects

www.tandfonline.com

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Drugs Wheel updates (long overdue!)

NPS version 1.1.0 and UK legal version 2.2.2 available from:Also - very proud to see the Finnish version in glorious colour in the new book by @AleksiHupli

siltalapublishing.fi/product/alya-l… thedrugswheel.com/?page=wheels

The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Gearing up for a talk from the venerable @ProfDavidNutt on the New Science of Psychedelics @Drug_Science @markadleyR @UniofNewcastle

The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Michael Linnell's NO2 briefing and a harm reduction summary are on the DrugWatch page:

thedrugswheel.com/?page=nitrous-…

The Drugs Wheel: a new model for substance awareness

The Drugs Wheel by Mark Adley is a new model for substance awareness

www.thedrugswheel.com

The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Long overdue, the German versions of the Drugs Wheel. Big thanks to @MvHeyden for the translations.

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Lovely Canadian versions of the Drugs Wheel by @CATIEinfo:and

catie.ca/sites/default/… thedrugswheel.com/downloads/Drug…

The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Thank you for all of your help with this - another project enriched by collaboration @clairesmiles87 @foundationdsm @FionaMabbs @NickHickmott @WithYouInKent

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Colourful taxonomies of drugs

Mark Adley and Guy Jones discuss three ways of visually representing drugs...

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

The new DrugWatch N2O briefing by the venerable Michael Linnell is now available on the Drugs Wheel site:Michael's website is

michaellinnell.org.uk thedrugswheel.com/?page=drugwatch

The Drugs Wheel: a new model for substance awareness

The Drugs Wheel by Mark Adley is a new model for substance awareness

www.thedrugswheel.com

The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

The joys of @creativecommons number 319: a belter of a redesign by @gTtVIH from their article:Raising the bar for the next Club Drugs Wheel perhaps? @FMeasham @WeAreTheLoopUK

Qué hermosa versión de la Rueda. ¡Maravilloso!

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

First drafts of the Romanian Drugs Wheels- it would be great to get feedback on these from local drug services...

@AFEW_Int
@IDPCnet
@drugreporter
@CastleCraig

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

The next generation of the Drugs Venn, amended following your Twitter comments. Going back to the three main categories has appealed particularly to young people's drugs workers - we welcome feedback on this draft collaboration with @NickHickmott @clairesmiles87 @FionaMabbs 1/3

The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

A free paper feat. the Drugs Wheel and Drugs Venn models. Authored by @markadleyR, @FMeasham and @PolicyChange
Video:Press release:Paper:@WeAreTheLoopUK @UniofNewcastle @LivUni
Thank you @TheNewImpostor

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The Drugs Wheel: a new model for substance awareness

The Drugs Wheel by Mark Adley is a new model for substance awareness

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Revised version of the Belgian Drugs Wheel and Effects Wheel, with thanks to @JochenSchrooten

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The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social · Dec 5

The Drugs Wheel making further reaches into Scandinavia...

May I introduce the Finnish version - Päihdeympyrä - with thanks to @AleksiHupli and @HPPry

thedrugswheel.com/downloads/Paih…