Baillee Farah

Researcher, student, & teacher in AOD harm reduction and policy. Living and working on Wallumattagal lands. All views are my own.

[Students for Sensible Drug Policy Australia @ssdp_australia]

SSDP Australia are looking for up to 3 new Board Directors for a 2y term. Join our growing national org & the movement for drug law reforms. Applications close 3 July. https://t.co/7T6DgaeME1

[David Ettershank MP @dettershankMP]

This just happened!!

In an Australia first three Parliaments across the country will have the same bill read in for debate at the same time!

Stay tuned to find out more about what the bill means and why it is so important for cannabis law reform. #springst #vicpol #freetheplant

[Olivia Ball @DrOliviaBall]

It’s easier to find a dealer than an opioid substitution therapy prescriber in Victoria:
— Sione Crawford of @HRV_Aust at #HR23, echoing the findings of the recent evaluation of the Nth Richmond #MSIR chaired by John Ryan

[Baillee Farah @bailleefarah]

Really looking forward to the next week of #HR23 with @ssdp_australia. Keen to workshop with peers, service providers, researchers, policymakers, and our other allies in our fight for equitable drug policy and respect for drugs and people who use them. #StrengthInSolidarity

[Dr Stephen Bright @stephenjbright]

Australia becomes the first country in the world to recognise MDMA as a medicine. Who would have thought!
https://t.co/GOifDoZJ3D

[Kev Dertadian (he/him) @KevDertadian]

While participants experienced police surveillance when visiting inner-city & western suburbs, had limited contact with police when on the Beaches. Targeted policing limited to a single suburb, which ‘stood out’ because it was the poorest part of an otherwise affluent area

[Kev Dertadian (he/him) @KevDertadian]

Absence of street drug market meant that drug transactions were assimilated into non-threatening middle-class suburban settings where police are less interventionist. This includes cafés, parking lots, out front of a block of townhouses or the driveway of suburban family home

[Kev Dertadian (he/him) @KevDertadian]

With no street-based drug market, participants mostly acquired drugs from friends and acquaintances from high school & middle-class drug scene. Though this was not the most reliable market, so regular visits to inner-city & western suburbs of Syd were common as well

[Kev Dertadian (he/him) @KevDertadian]

New paper in @APSAD_DAR with Theresa Caruana & Lisa Maher, involving qualitative description of a group of people who inject drugs in an affluent area of Sydney, the Northern Beaches

[Baillee Farah @bailleefarah]

Excellent news for the ACT. Thank you to all the peers, advocates, service providers, and other allies for all your hard work so far and all that is to come.

[Baillee Farah @bailleefarah]

@phillipwadds @KevDertadian @UNSW Well deserved @KevDertadian!

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

For drug policy to be a united movement, we must reach out to all of the causes and struggles that are impacted by their criminalisation & stigma.

There cannot be drug policy reform without sex work support, anti-racism, decolonialism, migrant support, & many, many more!

[Phillip Wadds @phillipwadds]

Tina McPhee delivering a powerful keynote @UNSWLaw, describing the collateral consequences of conviction, civil death, the “perfect legality” of discrimination against returning people & the need for non-performative engagement with people with lived experience.

[AYAC @austyouth]

Young people aged 21 and under have until 19 October to submit a 90-second speech to @RaiseOurVoiceAu. Speeches should answer 'What should Australia's new Parliament accomplish?'

You can submit your speech through the link in our bio.

[CSAA @CSAAustralasia]

Farewell to Bruno Latour, whose scholarship has profoundly influenced Cultural Studies research around the world. Go gently. #BrunoLatour #AcademicTwitter #Vale

https://t.co/w8hCwRwn6p

[David Caldicott @ACTINOSProject]

Multiple overdoses at NSW festivals this weekend.
If you’re not delivering on recommendations suggested by experts- from both Coronial, AND Special inquiries, (commissioned by your own government)- you are now actively part of the problem.
#pilltesting
https://t.co/S61cJFpwzs

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

Even so, it’s rare to hear these voices - usually through NGOs. Academics and policy makers often forget to ask or consider what it is that cigarette smokers, the people they are supposedly protecting, want and need.@FCAforTC @hapai_tc @ASHNZ2025 @HealthCoA @drayeshaverrall

[Philippe Bourgois @pibourgois]

This ~8000 person Swedish study of forced treatment confirms quantitatively what I've been seeing for years with respect to coercion of people with substance-use disorders. For example, that is why/how Carter died young in "Righteous Dopefiend".

[Michael Savic @MikeySavic]

Thoughtful & useful reflections from @tristankduncan on the need to challenge the conditions that perpetuate harm: "overdose deaths are preventable, they are driven foremost by a failed status quo, and they will not end without significant drug policy reform."!