Read an overview of our report from a recent professional consultation about responses to young people's vaping: drugsgenderandsexuality.org/…

Read an overview of Gemma Nourse's (@gemma_nourse) latest article examining health professional understandings of performance and image-enhancing drugs, health and masculinity. drugsgenderandsexuality.org/…

International Overdose Awareness Day is a day of remembrance and call to reduce the lives lost to overdose. We hope that the personal experiences in Overdoselifesavers.org and our response resources tinyurl.com/mr2cdth6we contribute to safer realities for people who use drugs.

We have recently completed a project investigating women’s perspectives on take-home #naloxone. Our latest blog explores some of our findings and outputs. rb.gy/jfy3pr

International Women’s Day is an important event to consider how gender shapes issues such as opioid #overdose and #naloxone uptake. Our report explores women’s experiences of using naloxone and suggestions for overdose prevention. #Internationalwomensday tinyurl.com/2t3bxwex

Adjunct Professor Suzanne Fraser’s (@suzannemfraser) 2023 @CDPJournal conference keynote address offers conceptual & methodological resources for critical drugs scholars seeking to generate new ways forward while ‘staying with the trouble’ (Haraway 2018). shorturl.at/bqwPY

With @GLADLaTrobe colleagues, our new article uses Berlant’s ‘cruel optimism’ to examine how understandings of the cost of hepatitis C elimination can position treatment as a gift from the state, rather than an entitlement, for those who access it. shorturl.at/zFJRZ

@FergusonNyssa presenting her new analysis of the contribution of "peer" labour in responses to opioid #overdose at #4sHonolulu23. She argues that much research does not properly account for this labour.

Our @LTU_Sex_Health colleague @deanxmurphy reflecting on 30 years of Australian research on HIV seroconversion at #4sHonolulu23

@adrianfarrugia1 had a great time presenting some of his new research to colleagues at Stockholm University this week.

Thrilled to be in attendance of the launch of the new collection, Narcofeminisms: Revisioning Drug Use edited by @fay__dennis and @KiranPienaar. The collection, inspired by the narcofeminist movement, attends to the life-affirming qualities of drug use. #CDP2023

@FergusonNyssa presenting her great work on take-home naloxone and overdose response training in Victoria, Australia. #cdp2023

@kanerace expertly drawing on Judith Butler and others to critically interrogate minority stress frameworks, proposing instead the queer world-building capacities of drug consumption. #CDP2023

@RamezBathish presenting his new ethnographic research on therapeutic communities. #cdp2023

Wonderful to see Professor David Moore present important co-authored research on gender in policy on ‘alcohol-related violence’ today at #CDP2023