Scotland's campaign for a harm reduction health response to drug-taking and an end to persecution of people who take drugs. 🍁
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Joined August 2023
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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.
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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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 💜
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.
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-…
Help Not Harm retweeted
Free #Naloxone training and kits from our Edinburgh Drop-in, 32 Cockburn Street EH1 1PB, click and deliver from @ScotFamADrugs or contact @SDF or your local Alcohol and Drug Partnership. Anyone can save a life crew.scot/what-we-do/get-nal… #HarmReductionSavesLives
After watching @ElenaWhitham deliver this statement I saw a man slumped in the street & not in good way near @crew_2000 Edinburgh offices, didn't need to administer #Naloxone but had it.
Crew contacted @SimonCommScot to check in on him, working together we can stop drug deaths, always carry #Naloxone, you could save a life.
Help Not Harm retweeted
*BREAKING*
Positive news: the UK Govt Scottish secretary announced to the Commons today that:
"If the Scottish Governmentt & the Lord Advocate decide to proceed with a pilot on drugs consumption rooms, the UK government will not intervene"
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-s…
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Help Not Harm retweeted
Lot of people tagged me in this thread last night but I had to take time to digest the amount of stigma from @CllrDempsey
Shocked at lack of understanding of decrim vs regulation to the language directed at people who use drugs or drug dependent.
Glasgow/🏴 deserves better 💔
Help Not Harm retweeted
Back of house alert for high strength pills at @EPfestival in Dublin:-
There is ongoing concern for high strength MDMA in circulation at #ElectricPicnic. The 'Pink Punisher pill' is linked with people becoming unwell (seizures). Get medical help if you or a friend feels unwell after using drugs. #ReduceTheHarms
Help Not Harm retweeted
"Young socialists are calling for an end to the failed war on drugs. It's time for a new approach: help, not harm."
// Andy and Morgan write on behalf of the SSY and Help Not Harm, calling for a change to Scottish drug policy
scottishsocialistyouth.net/c…
