AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜
@aivl.bsky.social
The PWUD Community-Controlled Peak Organisation that represents our network of Australian peer-based harm reduction & peer-led Drug User Organisations (DUOs) and supporting Asia-Pacific programs. #PeerPower
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To care for our young people and support their health and safety, we have to invest in harm reduction and seriously consider legalising and regulating the supplies of peptides. 💙💜
Here in Australia our unregulated peptide market represents a HUGE problem, particularly for our young people.
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‘Catastrophic’: Teenagers as young as 14 buying peptides online
Experts say peptides are now a bigger problem than steroids because more people use them and slick marketing on social media understates their risks.
www.afr.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:39 AM
To care for our young people and support their health and safety, we have to invest in harm reduction and seriously consider legalising and regulating the supplies of peptides. 💙💜
Amazing piece of work from some of our AIVL closest partners and AIVL peer leaders highlighting some of the current challenges and opportunities with community-research partnerships! 💜💙
Open Access - Navigating the Gap: An Examination of Funder Rhetoric & Reality Regarding Community-Research Partnerships
Danielle Russell, Ele Morrison, Jason Grebely, @carlatreloar.bsky.social, John Gobeil, Jess Doumany, MJ Stowe, Paul Dietze ... @alisonritter.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/dar....
Danielle Russell, Ele Morrison, Jason Grebely, @carlatreloar.bsky.social, John Gobeil, Jess Doumany, MJ Stowe, Paul Dietze ... @alisonritter.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/dar....
doi.org
January 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Amazing piece of work from some of our AIVL closest partners and AIVL peer leaders highlighting some of the current challenges and opportunities with community-research partnerships! 💜💙
Gotta be careful when using both alcohol and MDMA.🍷💊🍸
Hi friends! So we want to have a lil' yarn about how well MDMA and alcohol play together (tl;dr they aren't friends).
🍷Alcohol is a depressant. It slows things down, which is why you get clumsy and slur your words when you get drunk.
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knowyourstuff.nz/booze-and-md...
🍷Alcohol is a depressant. It slows things down, which is why you get clumsy and slur your words when you get drunk.
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Booze and MDMA: Not an advisable cocktail - Know Your Stuff NZ
So we’ve heard from several sources that taking MDMA can be a bit of fun if you take it properly. We’ve also heard from several sources that booze is also a bit of fun if you take it properly. But wha...
knowyourstuff.nz
January 13, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Gotta be careful when using both alcohol and MDMA.🍷💊🍸
We need tabacco harm reduction measures, what Australia is currently doing isn't working. Frankly, NZ is doing things much better on that front!
"Most people who smoke live in the Asia-Pacific region; millions die each year. Yet many of the region's governments are banning or strangling the very products that are driving smoking rates down in other parts of the world."
By Nancy Loucas @caphra.bsky.social:
By Nancy Loucas @caphra.bsky.social:
Asia-Pacific’s Harm Reduction Blind Spot Is Costing Lives - Filter
Most people who smoke tobacco live in the Asia-Pacific region. Millions of them die of smoking-related causes each year. Yet ...
filtermag.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:11 PM
We need tabacco harm reduction measures, what Australia is currently doing isn't working. Frankly, NZ is doing things much better on that front!
Involuntary treatment is a breach of health and human rights, and only increasing harms!
Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation and Triage (RESET) is expected to open this spring. It appears to be San Francisco's first involuntary sobering center.
SF to Open "RESET" Sobering Center, Pilot Civil Commitment for Drug Use - Filter
On January 7, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie (D) announced imminent plans to open Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation and Triage ...
filtermag.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Involuntary treatment is a breach of health and human rights, and only increasing harms!
Gotta know what you gear truly is! That's why we need drug checking available nationally I'm Australia ASAP! 💜✊️
Hi friends! This lil' guy's confusion and disappointment isn't just a mood, it's a whole damn emotion 😭😭😭😭
It can feel the same when you buy something and it turns out to be something else. All hope and anticipation and then...nope 😕
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It can feel the same when you buy something and it turns out to be something else. All hope and anticipation and then...nope 😕
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January 8, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Gotta know what you gear truly is! That's why we need drug checking available nationally I'm Australia ASAP! 💜✊️
Exactly banning vapes just push the transfer of product offer to the black markets and increased danger and potential harm!
What difference does vape ban actually make? Demand just supplied by black market! The vaping ban, ineffective in practice, has led to a surge in smuggling of e-cigarettes into India, contributing to health risks and substance abuse concerns among youths.
www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/vap...
www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/vap...
Vaping Ban Exists Only On Paper
www.freepressjournal.in
January 8, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Exactly banning vapes just push the transfer of product offer to the black markets and increased danger and potential harm!
@knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social quiz about cannabis! 🤩💚💛🌱
Hi friends! It's summer quiz time 🎉🎉🎉
Are you a weed wizard? Master of Mary Jane? Do you really know your stuff about cannabis?
Test your knowledge with our lil' quiz and let us know how you did in the comments 👇👇👇
knowyourstuff.nz/drug-info/yo...
Are you a weed wizard? Master of Mary Jane? Do you really know your stuff about cannabis?
Test your knowledge with our lil' quiz and let us know how you did in the comments 👇👇👇
knowyourstuff.nz/drug-info/yo...
You think you know your cannabis? - Know Your Stuff NZ
Are you canny when it comes to cannabis? A Mary Jane mastermind? A weed wizard? We've got a lil' quiz to see if you know your stuff about cannabis.
knowyourstuff.nz
January 8, 2026 at 1:02 AM
@knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social quiz about cannabis! 🤩💚💛🌱
First @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social monthly drug checking clinic in Hamilton! 💛💜
Hi Hamilton friends! We've got your first monthly drug checking clinic happening this weekend, so come and say hi 😊
💛 When: 4-7pm, 10th January
💛 Where: Level 2, 11 Garden Place, Hamilton
Drug checking is free, confidential, non-judgmental, and 100% legal, so come & find out what's in your stuff 💛
💛 When: 4-7pm, 10th January
💛 Where: Level 2, 11 Garden Place, Hamilton
Drug checking is free, confidential, non-judgmental, and 100% legal, so come & find out what's in your stuff 💛
January 8, 2026 at 1:01 AM
First @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social monthly drug checking clinic in Hamilton! 💛💜
Very interesting! 🧡
Our Feb 2026 issue is now live at www.thelancet.com/gastrohep!
Content includes #colorectalcancer, paediatric #ulcerativecolitis, #cholangiocarcinoma, #viralhepatitis, #MASH + more…
#GastroSky #LiverSky #MedSky #OncSky
Content includes #colorectalcancer, paediatric #ulcerativecolitis, #cholangiocarcinoma, #viralhepatitis, #MASH + more…
#GastroSky #LiverSky #MedSky #OncSky
January 8, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Very interesting! 🧡
Harm Reduction is the best! 🤩👌
Harm reduction is literally reducing harms, savings lives and improving peer and community health and wellbeing! 💜✊️✊🏿💚
Harm reduction is literally reducing harms, savings lives and improving peer and community health and wellbeing! 💜✊️✊🏿💚
🧵The overwhelming amount of data & folks' lived experiences continues to show #HarmReduction saves lives & improves individual & community health. As outlined in this @inforum.com op-ed, we must let this reality lead the way in how we approach & ultimately end...
bit.ly/HarmReductionReducesHarmOpEd
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Letter: Harm reduction is not enabling — it’s literally reducing harm
"Addiction is here. It is real. It does not vanish because a politician is uncomfortable," writes Ashley Nucamendi.
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January 8, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Harm Reduction is the best! 🤩👌
Harm reduction is literally reducing harms, savings lives and improving peer and community health and wellbeing! 💜✊️✊🏿💚
Harm reduction is literally reducing harms, savings lives and improving peer and community health and wellbeing! 💜✊️✊🏿💚
@knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social festival kit tips! 👌💛💜
Hi friends! This month's blog is a lil' checklist of what you might want to pack before you head away for a festival. This includes things you need for
🍎 Meatsuit maintenance
🌨 Weather
⛺ Your home away from home
💊 Recovery
Let us know if we forgot anything 👇👇👇
knowyourstuff.nz/whats-in-you...
🍎 Meatsuit maintenance
🌨 Weather
⛺ Your home away from home
💊 Recovery
Let us know if we forgot anything 👇👇👇
knowyourstuff.nz/whats-in-you...
What's in your festival kit?
We know proper preparation prevents piss-poor partying, so we've put together a lil' packing guide to make sure you've got what you need for the time you want.
knowyourstuff.nz
January 8, 2026 at 12:52 AM
@knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social festival kit tips! 👌💛💜
Always nice to see how things work on the ground! @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social is so well organised. Imagine if we had drug checking at festivals and fixed-site across Australia! Meaning we would get so much crucial information about drugs from Aus alongside NZ to reduce harms. 👌💜🤩
What happens when you get your stuff checked with us at a festival? Come on a lil' adventure and find out 😘
January 6, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Always nice to see how things work on the ground! @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social is so well organised. Imagine if we had drug checking at festivals and fixed-site across Australia! Meaning we would get so much crucial information about drugs from Aus alongside NZ to reduce harms. 👌💜🤩
Absolutely amazing piece of work from the @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social in Canada! ❤️💜
This report builds on research demonstrating the harms resulting from laws/policies that punish people who use drugs by specifically examining the consequences of recent shifts in how police/prosecutors pursue and lay drug possession and trafficking charges.
www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/its-not...
www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/its-not...
January 6, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Absolutely amazing piece of work from the @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social in Canada! ❤️💜
Absolutely lived-living experience and peer leadership should be at the front of policy change and law reform! 💜✊️✊🏿💚
Proud worked out for myself >40 years ago during HIV crisis any serious attempt to ⬇️ death & disease from psychoactive drugs had to meaningfully involve people with lived experience. Tobacco control never listen to people with lived experience @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social
This highlights the need for well resourced peer support program and evidence-based harm reduction strategies, including recovery options when that is what people who use steroids want. 💜✊️
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Absolutely lived-living experience and peer leadership should be at the front of policy change and law reform! 💜✊️✊🏿💚
Very good point from @chancethegardener.bsky.social. The focus should be on what the real issue is and supporting people's health and wellbeing! 💜✊️✊🏿💚
I worked on TB and malaria for 25 years. Then entered the field of tobacco control. My perspective:
TB & malaria control focus on controlling disease.
Tobacco control focuses on controlling PEOPLE. Top interventions are stigma and coercion (taxes & bans).
IMHO, #HarmReduction is more ethical.
TB & malaria control focus on controlling disease.
Tobacco control focuses on controlling PEOPLE. Top interventions are stigma and coercion (taxes & bans).
IMHO, #HarmReduction is more ethical.
January 5, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Very good point from @chancethegardener.bsky.social. The focus should be on what the real issue is and supporting people's health and wellbeing! 💜✊️✊🏿💚
Decriminalisation is the minimum that should be implemented internationally as it supports health equity and harm reduction service access! 💜✊️
Evidence from British Columbia shows decriminalisation reduced police interference with access to harm reduction — a key public health objective.
Rolling it back didn’t correct failure. It reversed progress.
Full study:
Rolling it back didn’t correct failure. It reversed progress.
Full study:
Policing and access to harm reduction services among young people who use drugs and young Indigenous people who use drugs before and after the pilot implementation of decriminalization of personal possession
McAdam et al. examine how decriminalisation reduced policing-related barriers to services, revealing important benefits for young people, including Indigenous.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Decriminalisation is the minimum that should be implemented internationally as it supports health equity and harm reduction service access! 💜✊️
This highlights the need for well resourced peer support program and evidence-based harm reduction strategies, including recovery options when that is what people who use steroids want. 💜✊️
Thank you @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
we need to start work on evidence based cessation and recovery plans for people who use steroids.
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
we need to start work on evidence based cessation and recovery plans for people who use steroids.
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Steroid use is 'exploding' in Australia — but quitting is a lonely road
A rising number of Australians are using steroids. But one expert says a lack of knowledge and widespread stigma make it tough to get clinical support.
www.abc.net.au
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 AM
This highlights the need for well resourced peer support program and evidence-based harm reduction strategies, including recovery options when that is what people who use steroids want. 💜✊️
Rave as resistance fueling resilience of people who use drugs! 🤩💜✊️💃
Rave as resistance — Faced with raids, humiliation and moral panic, Hungarian civil society turned public space into a dancefloor, to defend culture, dignity and freedom.
Full story:
Full story:
Dance for freedom: Rave revolution in front of the Hungarian Parliament
Thousands gathered to protest Hungary's escalating police harassment of musicians, clubs and young people.
f.mtr.cool
January 2, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Rave as resistance fueling resilience of people who use drugs! 🤩💜✊️💃
Comedown 101! Self care is crucial for people who use drugs 💜💛
Hi friends! How are we feeling after NYE?
Comedowns can be a challenge, so we're doing a TBT to our blog on handling the crash. Top tips in this one include
😭Handling Tuesday Blues and Washout Wednesdays
🍲How to get nutrients into your body when food is just Nope
knowyourstuff.nz/comedown-101/
Comedowns can be a challenge, so we're doing a TBT to our blog on handling the crash. Top tips in this one include
😭Handling Tuesday Blues and Washout Wednesdays
🍲How to get nutrients into your body when food is just Nope
knowyourstuff.nz/comedown-101/
Comedown 101 - Know Your Stuff NZ
Coming down can be rough as hell. One moment you’re in a bubble of euphoria, then the bubble pops and everything turns horrible in a matter of seconds. Even if it’s not sudden and dramatic, when reali...
knowyourstuff.nz
January 2, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Comedown 101! Self care is crucial for people who use drugs 💜💛
First @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social Drug Checking clinic! 🤩👌
Hi Wānaka friends! We've got our first drug checking clinic for 2026 happening in your neck of the woods 😃
💛When: 5-9pm, 9th January
💛Where: The Armstrong room, Lake Wanaka Centre, 89 Ardmore Street
Drug checking is free, confidential, non-judgmental, and 100% legal💛
💛When: 5-9pm, 9th January
💛Where: The Armstrong room, Lake Wanaka Centre, 89 Ardmore Street
Drug checking is free, confidential, non-judgmental, and 100% legal💛
January 2, 2026 at 4:24 AM
First @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social Drug Checking clinic! 🤩👌
Amazing work highlighting experiences of BBV & bacterial infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Qld prisons. We can't keep our heads in the sand, and denying people of proper access to peer education and harm reduction services! 💜✊️
New Collab in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social
We interviewed 30 PWIDs who were recently incarcerated in QLD - Aus. These accounts demonstrate how prisons reproduce BBV & bacterial infection risk among PWIDs.
doi.org/10.1016/j.dr...
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We interviewed 30 PWIDs who were recently incarcerated in QLD - Aus. These accounts demonstrate how prisons reproduce BBV & bacterial infection risk among PWIDs.
doi.org/10.1016/j.dr...
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@griffithcmh.bsky.social
@aivl.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Amazing work highlighting experiences of BBV & bacterial infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Qld prisons. We can't keep our heads in the sand, and denying people of proper access to peer education and harm reduction services! 💜✊️
That is to keep in mind with the current prohibition happening in Australia!
2025 HIGHLIGHT: Comprehensive state bans on flavored e-cigarettes or vaporized nicotine and vaping products may be unintentionally driving young adults toward greater use of traditional cigarettes.
Banning Flavored E-Cigarettes Increases Traditional Cigarette Use Among Young Adults - Profolus
Statewide bans on flavored e-cigarettes reduce vaping but increase cigarette smoking among young adults.
www.profolus.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
That is to keep in mind with the current prohibition happening in Australia!
Remember to start slow and go slow! 👌💜💉💊🧡
Our cocaine harm reduction snake has been updated for 2026.
Clear guidance on dosing, mixing risks, nasal health and when to seek help, all in one clear visual.
Download it free from our website and share it widely.
wearetheloop.org/resources #GoSlowStayLow
Clear guidance on dosing, mixing risks, nasal health and when to seek help, all in one clear visual.
Download it free from our website and share it widely.
wearetheloop.org/resources #GoSlowStayLow
December 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Remember to start slow and go slow! 👌💜💉💊🧡
If you missed the @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social quiz about K! 💛💜👌
Hi friends! It's quiz time 🥳🥳🥳
Are you a K-now-it-all? A ket king? Maybe a special k specialist? Do you really know your stuff when it comes to ketamine? Test your knowledge and let us know how you did in the comments 👇👇👇
knowyourstuff.nz/drug-info/yo...
Are you a K-now-it-all? A ket king? Maybe a special k specialist? Do you really know your stuff when it comes to ketamine? Test your knowledge and let us know how you did in the comments 👇👇👇
knowyourstuff.nz/drug-info/yo...
You think you know your ketamine? - Know Your Stuff NZ
You reckon you’re a K know it all? A specialist when it comes to Special K? Buckle up, kets and kittens, it’s time to test your knowledge about ketamine. 1) Ketamine is a… A) Stimulant B) Psychedelic ...
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December 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
If you missed the @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social quiz about K! 💛💜👌