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Keep Calm & Carry...

Well it's finally happened, after a couple of years of talking about it (and having wonderful friends nag me) I've started designing Tshirts to help support the costs of running this site. The first...

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Discourage the use of 2ml barrels

I'm sure its a common experience of needle programme workers around the UK (even around the world), people asking for 2ml barrels when they are planning to groin inject. But a 2ml isn't the best...

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Discourage the use of 2ml barrels

I'm sure its a common experience of needle programme workers around the UK (even around the world), people asking for 2ml barrels when they are planning to groin inject. But a 2ml isn't the best...

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Changes to Steroid Laws

Steroids have always been a bit confusing when it comes to discussing legalities with visitors to a needle programme. But changes to the law covering steroids that come into effect from April 23rd are...

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Changes to Steroid Laws

Steroids have always been a bit confusing when it comes to discussing legalities with visitors to a needle programme. But changes to the law covering steroids that come into effect from April 23rd are...

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Human Enhancement Drugs: The Emerging Challenges to Public Health

Drug use is usually portrayed as a hedonistic pursuit of pleasure, whether being the use of thought-expanding hallucinogens, the excitement of stimulants or the euphoria of opiates. However, there are...

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Human Enhancement Drugs: The Emerging Challenges to Public Health

Drug use is usually portrayed as a hedonistic pursuit of pleasure, whether being the use of thought-expanding hallucinogens, the excitement of stimulants or the euphoria of opiates. However, there are...

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Naloxone Film

Recently as part of my day job with HIT I've been working on a new naloxone website which will be launching soon. This means that naloxone is talked about in my household quite a bit, and as a result...

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Naloxone Film

Recently as part of my day job with HIT I've been working on a new naloxone website which will be launching soon. This means that naloxone is talked about in my household quite a bit, and as a result...

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Legal Highs, Injecting is No Surprise

Years ago when I started doing harm reduction work it was a very different drug landscape, heroin was the main drug used by people coming into services (after alcohol of course) Most injectors I saw...

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Legal Highs, Injecting is No Surprise

Years ago when I started doing harm reduction work it was a very different drug landscape, heroin was the main drug used by people coming into services (after alcohol of course) Most injectors I saw...

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Foot injecting

One of the exercises I do when I'm delivering safer injecting training looks at the most common injecting sites and their associated risks. People are usually quite good at putting the different sites...

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Forget the great divide

At heart I'm a harm reduction kind of person. I've spent the last decade working in needle programmes, running a website that provides injecting advice and presenting sessions at conferences promoting...

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The bad, the sad & the redeemed

Today I have another guest article from Matt Gleeson, He's previously written for this blog about use of the word Junkie in journalism. This time he's talking about the types of 'architypes' the media...

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PIED outcomes tool

Back in June I released the NSP Outcomes Tool This was an attempt to make a simple to use but flexable assesment/review tool that could be used in the relativly short time that most needle transactions...

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Keep Calm & Carry...

Well it's finally happened, after a couple of years of talking about it (and having wonderful friends nag me) I've started designing Tshirts to help support the costs of running this site. The first...

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Discourage the use of 2ml barrels

I'm sure its a common experience of needle programme workers around the UK (even around the world), people asking for 2ml barrels when they are planning to groin inject. But a 2ml isn't the best...

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Changes to Steroid Laws

Steroids have always been a bit confusing when it comes to discussing legalities with visitors to a needle programme. But changes to the law covering steroids that come into effect from April 23rd are...

View Article

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Human Enhancement Drugs: The Emerging Challenges to Public Health

Drug use is usually portrayed as a hedonistic pursuit of pleasure, whether being the use of thought-expanding hallucinogens, the excitement of stimulants or the euphoria of opiates. However, there are...

View Article

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Clik here to view.

Naloxone Film

Recently as part of my day job with HIT I've been working on a new naloxone website which will be launching soon. This means that naloxone is talked about in my household quite a bit, and as a result...

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