shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social Journeyman criminologist. Formerly known as @criminology before Musk ruined everything. It only hurts when I laugh
Simon Doherty @simondoherty1.bsky.social I’m a journalist who covers drugs, clubs, and culture
I-STARR @istarrproject.bsky.social The Infrastructure for Studying Treatment & Addiction Recovery Residences (I-STARR) project seeks to enhance infrastructure to conduct research on recovery housing for persons treated with MOUD
https://istarr.arg.org/
Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social Professor of Geography @ Manchester & UKRI Future Leader Fellow. Urban Crisis, Cities, Policy Mobilities, Health & Drugs, Climate & Social Justice. Views my own #urban #geography
Chloé Bate @4lfch103.bsky.social RA at the Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow.
Interests: drug use practices and cultures, drug policy, harm reduction.
Crew: mind altering @crew2000.bsky.social Edinburgh, Scotland | Charity est 1992 (SC021500) | Reduces harm and stigma associated with drugs (including alcohol)| Neither condemn/condone; we give info, advice, support to reduce risks and harms.
Toby @tniblock.bsky.social ESRC NINE PhD Researcher | Ulster University | Researching drug markets in Northern Ireland
Coffee4Craig @coffee4craig.bsky.social Manchester's most unique homelessness charity based in the North of the city. Account set up in progress...bear with us
Ian Hamilton @profianhamilton.bsky.social Addiction specialist, write for the Independent, BMJ, The Conversation, ByLine Times
Mark McCormack @markmccormack.bsky.social Sociologist. Professor. Focus on sexualities, transgressive leisure and society. Editor-in-Chief of Sexuality & Culture. Posts are in a personal capacity. I volunteer with The Loop, read and play badminton.
Tom @tleruez.bsky.social Drugs Intelligence and Research Project Officer (DHSC)
Russell Webster @russellwebster.com Researcher, evaluator, consultant & writer in drugs, alcohol & criminal justice. My blog keeps you up-to-date on the latest policy, practice and research.
Tatyana Sleiman @tatsl.bsky.social Transformative Justice advocate working at the intersection of drug and health systems reform.
Michelle Wazan @michellewazan.bsky.social Drug Policy
Human Rights
Lebanon
The Show Must Go On: A Brief History of Lebanon’s Drug Control Politics
https://jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/10.31389/jied.207
Instituto RIA @institutoriamx.bsky.social Investigación e incidencia en políticas de drogas y construcción de paz.
www.institutoria.org
Martin Jelsma @martinjelsma.bsky.social Drugs policy - Transnational Institute (TNI)
Global Commission on Drug Policy @globalcdp.bsky.social Calling for policies that are based on evidence, science and human rights #drugpolicyreform
Follow does not imply endorsement.
globalcommissionondrugs.org
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition @candrugpolicy.bsky.social Advancing drug policies grounded in public health, human rights and compassion. Part of @SFU_FHS
www.drugpolicy.ca
InsiteVan @insitevan.bsky.social INSITEvan
Tweets by #HarmReduction Advocates and Do Not Necessarily Reflect the Views of VCH or PHS #insitesaveslives
Dept of Research and Academic Engagement at Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicynerds.bsky.social
Tom Angell @tomangell.bsky.social @MarijuanaMoment journalist. 20+ years in cannabis reform. tomangell@gmail
Link primary source documents, you cowards
Don't ask me about stocks. I don't care.
Dagfinn Hessen Paust @dagfinnhessenp.bsky.social CSO, Safer Drug Policies Norway. Drug policy, public health science, law. Opinions expressed are my own. Photo: Pernille Sandberg.
Kassandra Frederique @kassandrafred.bsky.social Executive Director @DrugPolicyAlliance - Views are my own (she/her)
🎨: “Equality in Bloom” by Micah Terry
Ryan McNeil @ryanmcneil.bsky.social Associate Professor (Medicine/Public Health/Anthro) at Yale | opinions own
Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social Host @Crackdownpod.bsky.social VANDU veteran. Drugstore cowboy. National bestselling author. Award-winning journalist. Policy analyst. Shop steward. Blind. Be safe-Keep 6
Jason Reed @jasontron.bsky.social
Drugs Research Network Scotland (DRNS) @drnscot.bsky.social A collaboration between academics, service providers, experts by experience and policy makers to facilitate knowledge exchange of drugs research.
Drug Science @drugscience.bsky.social Drug Science is the UK's leading independent scientific body on drugs - guiding evidence-based drug policy and drug research. Please donate to support our work.
www.drugscience.org.uk
Release: Drugs, The Law & Your Rights @releasedrugs.bsky.social UK's centre of expertise on drugs and drug law. Global reports on decrim and racist policing. Campaigning for rights of people who use drugs.
Need advice? Contact 020 7324 2989/ ask@release.org.uk
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) @idpc.net The global network promoting drug policies grounded in social justice and human rights
International Journal of Drug Policy @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social The forum for dissemination of current research, reviews, debate, & critical analysis in international drug policy. Affiliated: ISSDP & INHSU.
Harm Reduction International @harmreductionintl.bsky.social We envision a world in which drug policies uphold dignity, health and rights. We use data and advocacy to promote harm reduction and drug policy reform.
hri.global
Zoë Garbett @zoegarbett.bsky.social Green Candidate for Mayor of Hackney 2026 / Green Party Member of London Assembly / Dalston Ward Councillor.
She/her.
Promoted by Stefan Liberadzki on behalf of Zoë Garbett, Green Party, c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Health Poverty Action @healthpoverty.bsky.social We see health differently. We do what’s needed, not what’s easiest, to stop health being denied.
https://www.healthpovertyaction.org/
Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social Professor of Alcohol Policy in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (@SARG-SCHARR), graph drawer, data botherer, cake eater, incompetent cyclist and intermittent birder.
The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social 🌤️ Hello, I’m the Mental Elf!
🌳 Follow me to keep up to date with the latest reliable #MentalHealthResearch.
🍄 Do you need some #ElfHelp? https://elfi.sh/help
🔗 https://linktr.ee/thementalelf
Dean Kirby @manchesterhistory.uk Author keeping people's history alive. Historian. Orwell Prize nominated journalist. PhD. Tour guide. Rep: @litagencygmc.bsky.social.
📕Pre-order my new book The Scuttlers: https://linktr.ee/TheScuttlers
Substack newsletter: www.manchesterhistory.uk
Alcohol Research Group @argdotorg.bsky.social Our scientists conduct alcohol & other drug related research to look at how substance use affects our health & our lives.
Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social Transform is an independent NGO, and UK registered charity, working nationally and internationally towards more just and effective drugs policies, including a safer system of legal regulation for all drugs.
https://transformdrugs.org/
Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social history keeps me awake at night
The Drugs Wheel @thedrugswheel.bsky.social The Drugs Wheel by Mark Adley, Guy Jones & Michael Linnell is an educational and harm reduction tool, licensed under Creative Commons, currently 19 international versions www.thedrugswheel.com
@markadley.bsky.social
maria hunter @mariahunter.bsky.social associate lecturer in criminology
Melissa Mendez 🇹🇹🏴 @dr-mendez-to-you.bsky.social Lawyer turned criminologist. Caribbean woman navigating Welsh life and academia.
Greater Manchester Drug Trends @gmtrends.bsky.social The UK’s first annual multi-method drug trends research project. Commissioned by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to monitor emerging substance use trends and changes in drug markets across Greater Manchester, England.
Nina C. Christie | PhD, MPH @ninachristie.bsky.social AAAS Congressional Fellow
I study substance use, harm reduction, social connections, and drug policy
PhD & MPH from University of Southern California
(she/her/hers)
Website: www.ninacchristie.com
Get Your Drugs Tested @gydt.bsky.social Free street-drug analysis service in Vancouver, Canada.
Sponsored by The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary and The Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary.
Founded 2019 by @DanaLarsen
Over 80,000 test results online at GetYourDrugsTested.com
LThomas @lgthomas.bsky.social Moving on over
Queer San Franciscan. HIV, harm reduction, public health, drug policy. I see a lot of live music. Birder. Childless cat lady. Mefite. ACT UP alum.
Chris B @bassbehaviour.bsky.social Old enough to know better.
Here for politics, drug policy and current affairs, a bit of daftness and the occasional guinea pig. Professional trainer with the NHS, specialising in drugs and alcohol. On the left.
Don't be a dick
Maddi Dellplain @maddidellplain.bsky.social East Van reporter @ Vancity Lookout
Former editor & health reporter @healthydebate.bsky.social
//writing on civic issues, health, disability & drug policy//
maddidellplain.journoportfolio.com
Natalie O'Regan @natalieoregan.bsky.social People, Policy, Progress
Drug Policy Reform | Cannabis Reform | Harm Reduction | Substance Use
Lucas Martignetti @lucasmartignetti.bsky.social Researcher, health inequity. Focus on health and harm reduction, poverty, homelessness.
Fed up in Texas 💙 @bluetexan68.bsky.social Blue dot in red state, Sub Abuse Counselor, Recovery advocate, harm reduction advocate, LGBTQ ally,Pride mom and grandma. Building a home banned book library.#🚫bookbans
#addiction#harmreduction#narcansaveslives
#stopthestigma#mentalhealth
#adoptdontshop.
Cyrilio M.Sc. @cyrilio.bsky.social Drug freedom activist | member | psychedelics | House+Techno | redditor mod r/Drugs | artist | asexual | psychonaut
Kate Roberts PhD, MDiv, LCSW @katelcsw.bsky.social Therapist | Researcher working with women who use drugs| My own views| Heart in Durham body in the Bay Area | 🏳️🌈💉❤️
April Morton, MPH @warriormama.bsky.social Warrior mama, public health professional, advocate for people who use drugs, harm reduction, justice reform, and homelessness. Chronic pain patient. Love baking, Giants baseball and my granddaughters. ♥️ 🏃🏼♀️➡️⚾️🏈🎂✝️
Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social Contributing Opinion Writer, NY Times. Author: Undoing Drugs, Unbroken Brain, Help At Any Cost; Co-auth: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog & Born for Love (w/ Bruce D. Perry). Addiction, autism, neuroscience, troubled-teen industry, harm reduction, cats.
Substance Use & Addiction Journal (SAj) @sajamersa.bsky.social Substance Use & Addiction Journal (SAj) disseminates addiction-related original research, policy positions, & commentary. Peer reviewed. Dynamic. Owned by @AMERSA, Inc. https://amersa.org/about-the-journal/ Tweets&ReTweets are our own. EiC= @adamjgordon
Vancouver Island Mental Health Society @vimhs.bsky.social VIMHS is a non-profit organization. We provide recovery, housing, and hope to adults experiencing mental health issues.
Chris Waugh @thewaughreport.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology. Specializing in masculinity, sex work and gender based violence prevention. I paint small men for fun and study normal sized men for a living
HRNA_AIIRM @hrna.bsky.social Harm Reduction Nurses Association is a national organization with a mission to advance harm reduction nursing through practice, education, research, advocacy.
Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Drexel University, Info. Sci. 🇲🇦 Studying lived experiences of people who use #drugs, #stigma, #harmreduction through mixed methods, #NLProc. Public health background. Aspiring wine connoisseur & proud cat lady 🐱🐱🐱
Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social International Public Speaker.
Harm Reduction and Recovery advocate.
Survivor of addiction, gangs and homelessness.
Telling my story.
Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social I helped legalize cannabis in Canada and won some precedent setting medical cannabis cases. Now I practice law in British Columbia and run a cannabis company called Great Gardener Farms. Dad and husband. Deadhead. Lions fan. He/him.
Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social #Activist fighting deadly drug policy.
🏳️⚧️ mom and ally.
Co-founder of Moms Stop The Harm.
Guest on Treaty 6
#HarmReduction
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#YouAreSafeWithMe
#Canada #Alberta
✨[redacted]✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social harm reductionist & counselor, advocate, member of young widow club - once featured in Bon Appétit magazine. views are my own; smarter + funnier than you.
📍MPLS | 40ish | she/they
Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social Human Doctor • Toxicology • Addiction • Emergency • #WTFentanyl & more often just WTF • drugs are misunderstood but people are misunderstood more • he/him • YouTube.com/@RyanMD • #MedSky
Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social Postdoc at @opioidcobre.bsky.social. Translational transdisciplinary drug scientist, harm reductionist, artist, paramedic, chemistry enthusiast, Texan. she/her/ella
Shop: pinpenmerger.etsy.com
Venmo: claireifc
Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social Regional Coordinator Asia Pacific
MSF Access
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (Doctors Without Borders)
TEDx Talk: Decolonizing Global Health & Drug Policy https://youtu.be/OQJd-zYqsl0?si=1YhbCJDshT6q0mZc
www.hri.global
Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW @myharmreduction.bsky.social Harm Reductionist. Drug Policy Reformer. Writer. Speaker. Lapsed Academic. Researcher-Advocate. Brown. She/Her/Dr.
Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka.bsky.social Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Systems Innovation at the University of Alberta's School of Public Health.
Edmonton/Treaty 6. 🇨🇦. ichwp.ca.
Jackie Hodges @jachodges.bsky.social ID doc at Duke. HIV, ID/substance use research w/ focus on low barrier person-centered care, imp sci, digital health. street medicine doc w/ NC Harm Reduction and Durham Tech. Mama x2.
Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca A group of Canadian physicians who care for people who use substances and advocate for safer, more compassionate, evidence-based healthcare policies.
Ryan's Hope 🇨🇦 @ryanshope.bsky.social In memory and honour of our son Ryan Nayler we advocate for, and support people living with mental illness, substance use issues, and experiencing homelessness.
#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #MentalHealth #Homelessness #MSTH #4Ryan #DrugSky
MarlissT @marlisst.bsky.social Decades-long RN in the inner city. Harm reduction, drug policy, reconciliation, dignity, respect and health for all.
Duncan Dwyer @duncandwyer.bsky.social Harm Reduction Public Health Educator. Universal bodily autonomy advocate. Follower of science. Intolerably disruptive believer in kindness, also in mischief. Pursuing beauty to its lair.
REMINDER: There is no moral imperative to tolerate the intolerant.
Marie Jauffret-Roustide @marieroustide.bsky.social Research Fellow Inserm CEMS France, Sociology, Political Science, Drug Policy, Harm reduction, Gender studies, Ethnicity, participatory method
Trustee ISDDP, Scientific committee EUDA
Scientific director D3S program EHESS IRESP
Revue Esprit editorial board
Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP @stephen-murray.com Husband & dad / Director of SafeSpot Overdose Hotline/ Paramedic from This American Life Ep809 The Call / Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor Boston University School of Public Health / VIEWS MINE!
http://stephen-murray.com
Azra Panjwani @azrapanjwani.bsky.social MSc student in public health at UAlberta. Interested in harm reduction, health equity, substance use, and mental health. lots of cat content!!!! she/her
https://linktr.ee/cssdpedmonton
Rachel Deacon @littlebugger.bsky.social Data analytics, value based health care + research alcohol and other drugs; lesbian, bi and queer women's health #SWASH; ex-astronomy; Sydney Australia
Jace @jaceor.bsky.social Drug & alcohol youth worker, harm reduction and drug policy reform.
free palestine 🇵🇸
he/him 🏳️⚧️
UK
Alice Seywright @aliceseywright.bsky.social Forensic Toxicologist, cat botherer, picker upper of toys, mushroom paparazza.
@katieellen.bsky.social @katieellen.bsky.social Neurodivergent white settler living in Mi'kma'ki. IDU, harm reduction proponent seeking drug policy reform. Researcher, consultant and advocate. BOD of Moms Stop The Harm.
StoptheDrugWar.org @stopthedrugwar.org
Atul Ambekar MD @atulambekar.bsky.social Professor of Addiction Psychiatry * Interests: Harm Reduction, Drug Policy, Epidemiology * Views Personal * From India
Berkeley Patients Group @mybpg.bsky.social Established in 1999, Berkeley Patients Group is one of America's longest-running dispensaries and a respected leader in the cannabis industry.
CA: C10-0000033-LIC
https://www.mybpg.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Patients_Group
Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
[Cannabis Embassy is a sui generis ad-hoc independent State without a territory]
https://cannabisembassy.org
Druggedfish @druggedfish.bsky.social I always support those most oppressed. It is in my DNA.
Passionate about drug policy, mental health, harm reduction, and beneficial drug use! 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 (They/them)
Logan Hullinger @loganhullinger.bsky.social Indie journalist covering addiction, drug policy and the harm reduction movement in Baltimore. IWWFJU member. Publisher of Mobtown Redux.
Read my work/contact me at mobtownredux.news.
Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social Global Healthcare venue for tracking & trending⏩Rx ,recalls, technology, studies, treatments, outbreaks, and more💗💊💉🚑 💥 RN - RESEARCHER 💥 PRO-Science 🚫 DMs
Jules Netherland @julesnetherland.bsky.social Sociology PhD, drug policy reform enthusiast. Resistance as self care and self care as resistance. Opinions my own.
Olivia Mancini, MSW @xlivmarie.bsky.social Drug policy | Advocate for harm reduction, safe supply, decriminalization, legal regulation and the right to housing | Opinions are my own | Co-founder of @sopenhamilton
Nick Boyce @nickboyce.bsky.social Drugs, drug policy, etc... based in Ottawa, Canada.
Comments are my own.