IAS Alcohol Focus Scotland AlcoholActionIreland Alcohol Health Alliance UK Global Alcohol Policy Alliance Movendi International EurocareBrussel Martin McKee 🇺🇦 Alice Wiseman greg fell FFPH Simon Capewell Rob Ralston SHAAP Alcohol Change UK GECI-PH network Tobacco Control Research Group Commercial Determinants Research Group at LSHTM Monika Kosinska

Wastewater analysis and an in-person survey conducted #UQ researchers found high levels of drug use and risky behaviours, including ingesting unknown substances at a Queensland music festival.

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Ben Tscharke Cheneal Puljevic UQ Medicine

JUST PUBLISHED | A new study published in DEPP has uncovered strong support from NT festival goers, for drug checking (aka pill testing) to reduce harm.
Read more in our latest media release: bit.ly/3Q8KXnN
Tim Piatkowski

QCIF News out now! 📣

* Supercomputing Asia 2024 highlights
* Macarena Rojas joins QCIF
* ReDBox releases version 3.5
* New sections: QCIF Talent Spotlight series & QCIF Updates and more!

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Our paper in The BMJ reports a dose-response relationship in delirium episodes and rates of subsequent dementia among >650K inpatients in NSW Australia. Reducing #delirium could be effective in #dementia prevention. Emily Gordon Shlomo Berkovsky Prof Ruth E Hubbard bmj.com/content/384/bm…

This is why I consider @ia4phs my professional home: iaphs.org/the-value-of-i…

I encourage you to join this welcoming society that centers its work on understanding and reducing inequities in population health.

What do people think is the most important issue in housing at the moment that should be addressed on tonight’s show?

Interested in housing markets and policy?

My book, The Great Housing Hijack, is available to pre-order (out 27th Feb)

It makes sense of the economic and political forces in property, debunks myths that hijack debates and offers workable policy options

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MarkRBol Jules Evans According this study, about a 2-in-1,000 chance you end up in the Emergency Department while tripping on ‘shrooms.

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The world's largest drug survey, being led by #UQ researchers, remains open! Global Drug Survey
is about gaining insight into international drug use for harm reduction and safer communities. medicine.uq.edu.au/article/2024/0…

🚀 Exciting news!

CheQpoint, Queensland's first fixed-site drug checking service, launches April 19th at QuIHN Bowen Hills in partnership with QuIVAA.

Stay tuned for our second location opening in July + festivals! Thank you to all our supporters for making this possible! 🎉

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Carving Cannabis 🇨🇦🇺🇸🍄🌱💨🎿🏌️ ICES Marco Solmi Dr. Kelly Anderson Chris Perlman Peter Tanuseputro Michael Pugliese Daniel Myran JAMA Psychiatry Although rare this is not true as about 1/200 people who use cannabis experience psychosis requiring emergency medical treatment which is far from insignificant. nature.com/articles/s4139…

My colleagues and I have been urging other nations to do this -- nitazines and fentanyls are likely to hit Europe hard and soon. Props to the UK for leading the way.
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⭐️ Seeking diverse perspectives from respondents of all ages, genders and sexual orientations, from rural and urban areas! Open til 30 April 2024 ⭐️ Cheneal Puljevic

Our new systematic review and meta-analysis found that text messaging-based interventions are effective at promoting tobacco cessation. This was an enormous amount of work; so proud of our team NHMRC CRE on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame UQ Centre for Health Services Research and NCYSUR, UQ
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Please join our PhD student Dr Natalie Wilde on 18th April to hear about the development of CoMUni - an intervention for mental health help seeking #UniversityMentalHealthDay Faculty of Health & Life Sciences Research Oxford Brookes Public Engagement of Research Student Minds

New collab in Harm Reduction Journal (BMC + Springer Nature) w. Michelle, Laetitia, Sara McMillan (@Griffith_CMH) and Griffith University MPharm Students (Sarah and Noni). Could pharmacies be an untapped environment for reducing steroid 💉 harms - doi.org/10.1186/s12954…

Hi friends! It's Peer Review...*checks calendar*...Wednesday!

This week's article is Characterising differences between self-reported and wastewater-identified drug use at two consecutive years of an Australian music festival, by Puljević et al.

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Sweating for Sobriety: Exploring the Relationship Between Exercise Engagement and Substance Use Disorders - tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…