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Evidence based drug harm reduction including drug checking - free to participants at festivals and events in New Zealand. Because moralising helps nobody.

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@HRCA_info 'Tough love' isn't actually love. Just sayin'.

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#IHRD24

Let's explore the values underpinning Harm Reduction:

Full article here:
https://t.co/uQelOpNpwq

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Wendy on Big Hairy News talking about @HRCA_info

https://t.co/68IEwF0Mex

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Happy International Harm Reduction Day xx

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155 people incl. drug policy experts: @drcarlhart @pwidpride @monicabarratt @AddictionsPMC @JoeBoden66 @drorfh @SteveTransform @hutton_dr @DrRoseC @JasonFerris22 @DrNicoleLee sign HRCA's Open Letter calling to end prohibition, legalise & regulate drugs
https://t.co/RQmmcDgrlb

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We need evidence based drug laws - not some dodgy 100yr old failed ideology.

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Hi friends! It's Peer Review Monday!

Today's article is actually an essay from the latest issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy and it uses a lot of very nice academic language to get nuclear levels of spicy.

https://t.co/Cz2y8oelTl

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Hi friends! It's Peer Review Monday 🥳🥳🥳

Last Thursday was ANZAC day, so we thought we'd have a bit of a dig into the use of psychedelic-assisted therapy for combat veterans suffering PTSD and alcohol abuse.

https://t.co/1jPZHasBn1

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Hi friends! Bias is alive and well and affecting medical treatment for people who take drugs. So we've come up with some tips that might help you avoid being discriminated against 😘

https://t.co/ltOQTqrNQy

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@MrHilariouskiwi @bartjevandeven @nzdrug The likelihood of that being fentanyl is extremely low. Fentanyl cases are usually unconscious and not breathing.

However, videoing people who clearly need help and putting it on the internet for shock value is gross. For all we know that person might be having a seizure.

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@mdmaadvocacy @HRCA_info @nzdrug @julianbuchanan No drug is without risk. But neither is getting out of bed or eating food (could choke oh noes!) - and we are required to do that daily.

The tendency to overstate the risks of drugs and understate the risks of other activities is well covered in David Nutt's paper Equasy.

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@mdmaadvocacy The fact that upward classification only requires an Order in Council, but downward classification requires an Act with a full legislative process speaks volumes about the biases within the drug classification system.

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Overshadowing is discrimination. It's not something that you should ever tolerate.

Our friends at Equally Well have made a wee video on how to recognise overshadowing, and what you can do about it.
https://t.co/QchBZNgMnV

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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa will be launched on #IHRD24

Seeking

• Human Rights for PWUPD
• Honour Te Tiriti
• Evidence based treatment
• Extensive harm reduction services
• End prohibition harm
• Rescind MDA & PSA
• New Health based law for ALL psychoactive drugs

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Hi friends! For TBT we've updated our post on GHB and GBL with some info about 1,4-Butanediol, which is another pro-drug of GHB that we've seen out in the wild last year.

https://t.co/RUxjpCxbOE

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Happy Peer Reviewed Easter, friends 😘

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Hi friends, it's Peer Review Monday 🥳🥳🥳

This week's article is Harm reduction behaviours and harm experiences of people who use 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in Aotearoa New Zealand, by Whelan et al

https://t.co/xWpbIqqw54

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@mdmaadvocacy Yep, at the end of our post it's got a link that takes you to the Ministry's website, and that has all the details for making a submission there

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Hi friends. Roadside drug testing via saliva is back on the legislative table 🙄

We got spicy roadside drug testing in 2022.

And 2023.

And we're getting damn spicy about it now.

https://t.co/t2E78A07CQ

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It's coming into that time of year again 🙂

https://t.co/UpKIY6Ly3l

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Hi friends! It's Peer Review Tuesday 🥳🥳🥳

This week's article is for the chemistry nerds 😘

It goes into the challenges drug checking organisations face when new psychoactive substances crop up in the market.

https://t.co/X8pT6vAYsg