Scotland's campaign for a harm reduction health response to drug-taking and an end to persecution of people who take drugs. 🍁
Scotland
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Help Not Harm retweeted
What a milestone – 10 quarterly RADAR reports from @P_H_S_Official!
publichealthscotland.scot/pu…
10 key points on drug trends and harms in Scotland:
1. Service indicators (injecting equipment provision, opioid substitution therapy, treatment) were all stable on the last quarter.
(9/9) @SSYnational @StirlingUniSSY @SocialistUoD @PeteKrykant_OPC @andypatetc @ReportingTrips @heckle_scot @RIC_Scotland
Safe consumption works! ❤️🩹
‼️ We'd much prefer you vote for someone who's going to decriminalise drugs... BUT. Just for their crimes against the working-class, GET THE TORIES OUT!
Help Not Harm retweeted
We've parsed through it all for the relevant bits 😪
What does each UK party say about drug policy?
Read on through our cheatsheet with extracts from all the manifestos ⤵️
✍️Bradley Young
talkingdrugs.org/uk-election…
Help Not Harm retweeted
🚨A HUGE MOMENT TODAY📷 as
@amnesty, the worlds' biggest human rights org, publishes its new drug policy position paper - advocating for comprehensive policy and law reform through a human rights lens, including legal regulation of ALL DRUGS amnesty.org/en/documents/POL…
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💊 Pills are getting stronger, but there's still no way for folk at raves to know how strong what they're taking is.
❓ When will it be time for front of house drug checking at festivals?
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Help Not Harm retweeted
Someone asked couple days ago if I'd pics of the old van used for safer injection site before upgrade to ambulance
Remembering the transformation of a rusty old £2K van to a safe space that saved lives & ultimately transformed the law so Scotland can open an official facility 💜
Safer consumption rooms coming soon in Glasgow — the fight continues stronger than ever. ✊ It's time for safer consumption rooms everywhere. ❤️🩹
Help Not Harm retweeted
Join us 26 June 5-8 PM @ Pelican House E1 5QJ for our #SupportDontPunish event, where we will have a demo SCS on display!
We urgently need safer consumption sites to prevent further overdose deaths and provide support and community for people pushed into premature death.
SAFER CONSUMPTION WORKS.
news.yale.edu/2023/12/19/tre…
Why do drug deaths increase every year across the UK?
Yale study finds risk of death INCREASED by 77% for abstinence treatments compared to NO treatment.
news.yale.edu/2023/12/19/tre…
2008 ScotGov & 2010 UKGov abstinence driven drug strategies 👇
Help Not Harm retweeted
Opposing #drugs law reform is directly supporting the gangsters' business model. Bad #drugspolicy is the main factor driving crime, violence and the, destruction of communities Both @RishiSunak @Keir_Starmer ignore the subject because it is too difficult. politico.eu/article/britain-…
