🚨New paper🚨.Centering authors' responsibility to engage w/ people who use drugs & respect their preferences, we argue using people-first strengths-based & inclusive language with care breaks down #DrugStigma & builds equitable values policies & practices.

Have worked in a Victorian resi rehab in the past 2 years? . We're keen to hear your insights about the care needs of people bailed to treatment. 👉 Find out more: Please share!.

RT @ijdrugpolicy: “No penalties. No arrests. No jails”: Perspectives on drug decriminalization among people who inject drugs in Sydney” by….

Critical problematisations from #MeganSpina about how medicalisation + pathologisation underpin mental health clinicians' and researchers' stigmatising biases about "causes" of  sex work #TacklingStigma2024

Vital work from @Kate_Seear examining the inquest into the death of Veronica Nelson, posing important questions around whether drug criminalisation is cruel, inhuman and degrading and thus incompatible with human rights law #TacklingStigma2024 @GLADLaTrobe

Fantastic pres from @BurnetInstitute's .@DrMandaRoxburgh challenging us to create new narratives to counter algorithmic amplification of drug-related online stigma.#TacklingStigma2024

RT @DrAyselSultan: 🚨 New paper about #socialmedia & digital harm reduction is now published in Harm Reduction Journal!. With @andrebgomes33….

RT @gemma_nourse: A second article drawn from my PhD research, co-authored with Professor David Moore and Professor @suzannemfraser, is now….

RT @GLADLaTrobe: Join us for the launch and workshop of our human rights and drug policy research report. This marks the culmination of a….

RT @gemma_nourse: We are currently recruiting to interview people based in Vic, NSW and ACT whose alcohol and other drug consumption has ch….

RT @VSURF_Au: REMINDER: This month's VSURF seminar is this Friday the 20th at 4pm over Zoom, where @adrianfarrugia1 will be presenting a pa….

RT @ijdrugpolicy: “Putting tendencies and trajectories to work: useful tools for engaging with accounts of change and recovery?” By @KatMOl….

What a privilege to work with such inspiring co-authors on this 🙌.@Annie_Madden_ #CameronDuff @AlisonRitter1.

RT @TurningPointAU: Could some academic language conventions inadvertently lead to discrimination?.To assist researchers writing about subs….

Drug stigma drives overdose. Nowadays when people take certain drugs in certain ways, they are made to feel sick, dirty, different, criminal, other. This can lead to isolation, alienation & using in secret, alone or in ways that increase harm & sometimes, leads to overdose. Break.