Steve Rolles
@SteveTransform
Senior Policy Analyst for Transform Drug Policy Foundation (@transformdrugs), mostly tweeting on drug policy/law reform. Own views etc.
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http://transformdrugs.org 12-09-2012 18:32:54
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Last week Steve Rolles joined Adam Holland from Faculty of Public Health, & Abigail Wilson, lead clinical pharmacist for With You, in Westminster for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Drugs Alcohol & Justice, to present to MPs, Lords & key stakeholders on responses to Synthetic Opioids
There's calls by Transform Drug Policy Foundation for #Devon to offer routine testing - following a major incident at the weekend which saw two deaths and nine people being taken to hospital
Devon & Cornwall Police say investigations continue with five people on bail
Latest here: planetradio.co.uk/greatest-hits/…
Great to see this coverage of nitazenes in the UK and why we need the government to act. Pleased to have supported the BBC team in getting this out. Billy McLennan bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
Bristol, mark your calendars! 📅
Transform's new Co-CEO Shoba Ram is speaking about the future of drug policy alongside David Nutt, Neil Woods and Matty Edwards.
Grab your ticket now to join us and The Bristol Cable on May 16th 👉headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/brist…
NEW: Latest The News Agents Investigates - Britain’s hidden homeless children
Nearly 140,000 kids in Britain are now homeless, in so-called “temporary accommodation”. We went to a school where half of the kids don’t have a home to call their own.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
I wrote about 'Peak Booze' – 2004, when UK alcohol consumption reached its highest point for a century – and its potential relation to the current record alcohol death rates. For The Observer >>>
theguardian.com/society/2024/a…
No comment on Dr Daniel Poulter MP's defection from Conservative to Labour* but he's been pretty sensible on drug policy in the past (see this Times column supporting our 50 Years of the Misuse of Drugs Act campaign👇)
*Labour have been terrible on drugs too thetimes.co.uk/article/after-…
'Mapping a moral panic: News media narratives and medical expertise in public debates on safer supply, diversion, and youth drug use in Canada' by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸 et al (2024) via International Journal of Drug Policy...why is safer supply so stigmatized?
Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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