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Cleaning injecting sites with alcohol helps prevent SSTIs. Not using an alcohol swab prior to last injection clustered with risk factors like reusing and sharing injecting equipment. Thanks @SarahLarney Amy Peacock @PsychopharmUTAS @KerrynButler SWAB - Safely Wipe Away Bacteria

‘A relatively neglected source of day-to-day ill-health among people who inject drugs is bacterial infections of the skin & soft tissue.’ Blog by Daisy Gibbs: Safely Wipe Away Bacteria - Findings on injecting practices from the Illicit Drug Reporting System ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/blog/swab-safe…

Just published: Sustained reductions in alprazolam use amongst people who inject drugs after regulatory change sciencedirect.com/science/articl… with Amy Peacock @PsychopharmUTAS and Rachel Sutherland

Please help out by taking part or sharing our new study exploring the short and long term impacts of COVID-19 on people who use illicit drugs! @monicabarratt Caitlin Hughes NCCRED @PsychopharmUTAS

Enjoying the alliteration - particularly "health, human rights and harm reduction". Thanks to the participants and all who helped with this research on #Covid_19 impacts on drug use AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 @monicabarratt Caitlin Hughes @PsychopharmUTAS NCCRED NDARC, UNSW #SupportDontPunish

What model of a drug checking service is 'right' for Australia? If you're in Australia and have recently taken ecstasy, please check out our 10 minute survey and tell us what you think. There's 5x $100 gift voucher prize draw, too #harmreduction #mdma surveys2.utas.edu.au/index.php/1789…

New drug alert in NSW, Australia - high and variable dose blue MDMA 'Chupa Chups' tablets. health.nsw.gov.au/aod/public-dru… NCCRED

AIVL's CEO, Melanie Walker speaking on COVID-19’s long-term impact on Australia’s illicit drug use: thewire.org.au/story/covid-19… #drugtrends NDARC, UNSW

🔎 Researchers at NDARC, UNSW , @SGSC_RMIT & University of Tasmania are conducting a research study on MDMA/ecstasy risk communication. 🤸 Eligibility criteria: 18+, live in Aus, used MDMA in the past year Survey = anonymous, approx 20 mins Prize draw = Apple iPad unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0N…

How are Australians who regularly use #drugs adapting to #COVID19? Wave 2 of the ADAPT study led by @NDARCnews Rachel Sutherland, Amy Peacock, @monicabarratt @PsychopharmUTAS, Flinders Criminology Caitlin Hughes et al is out now ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/…

Yay! Our paper on the HCV cascade of care amongst PWID in Aust has been published in @DrugAlcoholDep ! We found high testing & treatment rates & AOD service engagement associated with increased HCV testing & treatment uptake. @SarahLarney Amy Peacock Olivia Price Jason Grebely

A new paper! Led by me, with invaluable input from @callinan_sarah, Rakhi Vashishtha, Wing See Yuen and Paul Dietze. We show that the big declines in teen drinking in Australia are being at least partly maintained as these cohorts hit early adulthood onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Keen to understand the positive side of drug use alongside the potential harms? Keen to reduce those harms? Predict which new drugs might stick around and which drugs will fall away? Nifty PhD opportunity with @PsychopharmUTAS to do fun stuff that will help harm reduction efforts

Police culture MUST change! "The researchers concluded that as well as a changed approach to policing, more targeted education to prevent risky behaviours [was needed]" by Melissa Sweet via The Gaurdian. HT @monicabarratt NUAA Amy Peacock 1/2 theguardian.com/australia-news…

Deadline extended! Call for Papers for upcoming Special Issue: Understanding the emergence and impact of novel synthetic opioids and how to reduce associated harms More information available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…