Julian Buchanan, PhD
@julianbuchanan.bsky.social
Pioneered risk/harm reduction in Liverpool in 1980s. Ex Drug Worker & Criminology Professor.
Speaker, Blogger, Writer, Activist for drug reform.
Founding member of Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa.
Pākehā/Scouser
https://julianbuchanan.wordpress.com/
Speaker, Blogger, Writer, Activist for drug reform.
Founding member of Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa.
Pākehā/Scouser
https://julianbuchanan.wordpress.com/
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@julianbuchanan: There is no 'world drug problem' Don't collude with this nonsense We have a world drug policy problem that has been caused by ideologically driven 'drug' prohibition that has peddled ...
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There's no world drug problem
Don't collude with it
We have a world drug policy problem:
Ideologically driven 'drug' prohibition problem, sustained by propaganda, misinformation, lies & vested interests
Expose & challenge it
#WeAreAllDrugUsers
Full thread here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/96841...
Don't collude with it
We have a world drug policy problem:
Ideologically driven 'drug' prohibition problem, sustained by propaganda, misinformation, lies & vested interests
Expose & challenge it
#WeAreAllDrugUsers
Full thread here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/96841...
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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A cartoon script I put together for @hrca.bsky.social
Correlation is not causation.
Drug presence is not drug impairment.
Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!
Correlation is not causation.
Drug presence is not drug impairment.
Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!
We are receiving important reminders about paracetamol that association is not causation. Could someone also tell the NZ Transport Agency that association is not causation. Drugs like cannabis can be detected days, weeks even months after consumption. Drug presence is not the same as drug impairment
September 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A cartoon script I put together for @hrca.bsky.social
Correlation is not causation.
Drug presence is not drug impairment.
Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!
Correlation is not causation.
Drug presence is not drug impairment.
Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!
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Reposted by Julian Buchanan, PhD
"We will blow you out of existence ... Each boat we sink carries drugs that would kill more than 25,000 Americans."
Amid Trump's ludicrous claims as his Caribbean killings continue, the US is further destabilizing the region, reports
@tganeva.bsky.social:
Amid Trump's ludicrous claims as his Caribbean killings continue, the US is further destabilizing the region, reports
@tganeva.bsky.social:
Trump Brags of Lethal US Drug-War Strikes to the United Nations
As the Caribbean killings continue, Trump makes ludicrous claims and destabalizes the region by redesignating Colombia.
filtermag.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"We will blow you out of existence ... Each boat we sink carries drugs that would kill more than 25,000 Americans."
Amid Trump's ludicrous claims as his Caribbean killings continue, the US is further destabilizing the region, reports
@tganeva.bsky.social:
Amid Trump's ludicrous claims as his Caribbean killings continue, the US is further destabilizing the region, reports
@tganeva.bsky.social:
A cartoon script I put together for @hrca.bsky.social
Correlation is not causation.
Drug presence is not drug impairment.
Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!
Correlation is not causation.
Drug presence is not drug impairment.
Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!
We are receiving important reminders about paracetamol that association is not causation. Could someone also tell the NZ Transport Agency that association is not causation. Drugs like cannabis can be detected days, weeks even months after consumption. Drug presence is not the same as drug impairment
September 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A cartoon script I put together for @hrca.bsky.social
Correlation is not causation.
Drug presence is not drug impairment.
Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!
Correlation is not causation.
Drug presence is not drug impairment.
Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!
Reposted by Julian Buchanan, PhD
Our approach to drugs under prohibition has been informed by propaganda, prejudice and hunch - with devastating consequences:
September 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Our approach to drugs under prohibition has been informed by propaganda, prejudice and hunch - with devastating consequences:
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Have we become immune to the hypocrisy and contradiction?
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
How can this make any sense?
Are we trapped in an episode of the Twilight Zone or Life on Mars?
Is this just a far fetched joke?
No.
Across the world police invest massive resources to seize 'drugs' often less harmful than the ones they use!
Are we trapped in an episode of the Twilight Zone or Life on Mars?
Is this just a far fetched joke?
No.
Across the world police invest massive resources to seize 'drugs' often less harmful than the ones they use!
August 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Have we become immune to the hypocrisy and contradiction?
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
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Julian Buchanan: @julianbuchanan.bsky.social
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Kirsten Gibson: @kirstengibson.bsky.social
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"[G]iven the severe, artificial and needless inflation of risks around prohibited drugs, we would argue that referring to overdose fatalities as 'drug-related deaths' deflects from the truth."
"These deaths [..] are better described as 'prohibition-related deaths.'"
#USA #Policing #Drugs
"These deaths [..] are better described as 'prohibition-related deaths.'"
#USA #Policing #Drugs
Overdoses Should Be Termed “Prohibition-Related Deaths”
Another International Overdose Awareness Day arrives on August 31. It’s a time for us to reflect once more on a ...
filtermag.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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My latest article co-authored with @hrca.bsky.social colleagues for International Overdose Awareness Day #IOAD2025 explaining why referring to overdose as a drug related death is misleading - most of these deaths are prohibition related deaths!
filtermag.org/overdose-pro...
filtermag.org/overdose-pro...
Overdoses Should Be Termed “Prohibition-Related Deaths”
Major drivers of overdose fatalities have little to do with drugs and everything to do with our drug laws.
filtermag.org
August 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My latest article co-authored with @hrca.bsky.social colleagues for International Overdose Awareness Day #IOAD2025 explaining why referring to overdose as a drug related death is misleading - most of these deaths are prohibition related deaths!
filtermag.org/overdose-pro...
filtermag.org/overdose-pro...
Reposted by Julian Buchanan, PhD
My latest article co-authored with @hrca.bsky.social colleagues for International Overdose Awareness Day #IOAD2025 explaining why referring to overdose as a drug related death is misleading - most of these deaths are prohibition related deaths!
filtermag.org/overdose-pro...
filtermag.org/overdose-pro...
Overdoses Should Be Termed “Prohibition-Related Deaths”
Major drivers of overdose fatalities have little to do with drugs and everything to do with our drug laws.
filtermag.org
August 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My latest article co-authored with @hrca.bsky.social colleagues for International Overdose Awareness Day #IOAD2025 explaining why referring to overdose as a drug related death is misleading - most of these deaths are prohibition related deaths!
filtermag.org/overdose-pro...
filtermag.org/overdose-pro...
Have we become immune to the hypocrisy and contradiction?
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
How can this make any sense?
Are we trapped in an episode of the Twilight Zone or Life on Mars?
Is this just a far fetched joke?
No.
Across the world police invest massive resources to seize 'drugs' often less harmful than the ones they use!
Are we trapped in an episode of the Twilight Zone or Life on Mars?
Is this just a far fetched joke?
No.
Across the world police invest massive resources to seize 'drugs' often less harmful than the ones they use!
August 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Have we become immune to the hypocrisy and contradiction?
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
The rich robbing the poor like medieval times - just far more organised with nobody able to escape their pillaging.
It's well out of control.
It's well out of control.
Power firms tipped to pay a record $1.4 billion to shareholders 👀
#nzpol
#nzpol
Power firms set to pay a record $1.4 billion to shareholders
It’s been a tough 12 months for electricity users, but payouts to shareholders in the big four power companies aren’t expected to miss a beat. Have your say in the comments.
www.thepost.co.nz
August 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The rich robbing the poor like medieval times - just far more organised with nobody able to escape their pillaging.
It's well out of control.
It's well out of control.
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Interview - digging deeper to explore:
1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs';
2. Risk & regulation;
3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation
4. Consider strategies for reform.
youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...
1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs';
2. Risk & regulation;
3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation
4. Consider strategies for reform.
youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...
710Sessions - Session 01 - Julian Buchanan - HRCA - Full Interview
YouTube video by the daberHashery nz
youtu.be
August 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Interview - digging deeper to explore:
1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs';
2. Risk & regulation;
3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation
4. Consider strategies for reform.
youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...
1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs';
2. Risk & regulation;
3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation
4. Consider strategies for reform.
youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...
Interview - digging deeper to explore:
1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs';
2. Risk & regulation;
3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation
4. Consider strategies for reform.
youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...
1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs';
2. Risk & regulation;
3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation
4. Consider strategies for reform.
youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...
710Sessions - Session 01 - Julian Buchanan - HRCA - Full Interview
YouTube video by the daberHashery nz
youtu.be
August 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Interview - digging deeper to explore:
1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs';
2. Risk & regulation;
3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation
4. Consider strategies for reform.
youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...
1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs';
2. Risk & regulation;
3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation
4. Consider strategies for reform.
youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...
It's a brutal and despicable drug apartheid.
'Please Sir....'
'Let me join I'm not addictive...'
'How about me I'm natural'
'What about me, I'll be good?'
Say no to all drug exceptionalism.
The privilege of prohibition is corrupt & devastatingly damaging.
Don't seek to join it - let us unite & seek to abolish it!
'Let me join I'm not addictive...'
'How about me I'm natural'
'What about me, I'll be good?'
Say no to all drug exceptionalism.
The privilege of prohibition is corrupt & devastatingly damaging.
Don't seek to join it - let us unite & seek to abolish it!
July 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It's a brutal and despicable drug apartheid.
Let us stand together.
Don't be duped by the war monger$$$$$$$
They invaded and bombed Iraq falsely claiming they had 'weapons on mass destruction' - backed up by a dodgy dossier simply compiled from various sources from the internet!
Don't be duped by the war monger$$$$$$$
They invaded and bombed Iraq falsely claiming they had 'weapons on mass destruction' - backed up by a dodgy dossier simply compiled from various sources from the internet!
June 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Let us stand together.
Don't be duped by the war monger$$$$$$$
They invaded and bombed Iraq falsely claiming they had 'weapons on mass destruction' - backed up by a dodgy dossier simply compiled from various sources from the internet!
Don't be duped by the war monger$$$$$$$
They invaded and bombed Iraq falsely claiming they had 'weapons on mass destruction' - backed up by a dodgy dossier simply compiled from various sources from the internet!
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🇩🇪: Bei obiger Einordnung waren @docsteinmetz.bsky.social und @torrid-luna.bsky.social allerdings eine wertvolle Inspiration!
🇳🇿: And also once again many thanks to @julianbuchanan.bsky.social for the basic creation, the origin of which comes from him: julianbuchanan.wordpress.com
🇳🇿: And also once again many thanks to @julianbuchanan.bsky.social for the basic creation, the origin of which comes from him: julianbuchanan.wordpress.com
Drugs, Human Rights & Harm Reduction
Julian Buchanan CPA, DSW, MA, PhD
julianbuchanan.wordpress.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
🇩🇪: Bei obiger Einordnung waren @docsteinmetz.bsky.social und @torrid-luna.bsky.social allerdings eine wertvolle Inspiration!
🇳🇿: And also once again many thanks to @julianbuchanan.bsky.social for the basic creation, the origin of which comes from him: julianbuchanan.wordpress.com
🇳🇿: And also once again many thanks to @julianbuchanan.bsky.social for the basic creation, the origin of which comes from him: julianbuchanan.wordpress.com
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"Endlessly repeating the same pattern for 50 years and imagining that —on this occasion, unlike all the other occasions—the results of prohibitionist policies will somehow be different is, to be frank, utterly deluded.." @julianbuchanan.bsky.social #addiction #opioids #harmreduction
June 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Endlessly repeating the same pattern for 50 years and imagining that —on this occasion, unlike all the other occasions—the results of prohibitionist policies will somehow be different is, to be frank, utterly deluded.." @julianbuchanan.bsky.social #addiction #opioids #harmreduction
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#NZPol The excellent Anne Salmond on the execrable Regulatory Standards Bill, aka Aotearoa’s Corporate Government Enablement Act.
We must fight this nonsense in every way possible. It represents the very real end of the concept of ‘public good’.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/14/a...
We must fight this nonsense in every way possible. It represents the very real end of the concept of ‘public good’.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/14/a...
Anne Salmond: What’s wrong with the Regulatory Standards Bill
Opinion: Nine reasons why Act's legislation on regulation is flawed and should not pass
newsroom.co.nz
June 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
#NZPol The excellent Anne Salmond on the execrable Regulatory Standards Bill, aka Aotearoa’s Corporate Government Enablement Act.
We must fight this nonsense in every way possible. It represents the very real end of the concept of ‘public good’.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/14/a...
We must fight this nonsense in every way possible. It represents the very real end of the concept of ‘public good’.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/14/a...
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Sehr, sehr viele Mythen und Vorurteile werden auf folgender Seite zerlegt: drug-mythology.blogspot.com
Ein großer Teil davon hat seine Basis von @julianbuchanan.bsky.social (ein ausgezeichneter Experte in diesen Bereich). Einige Mythen werden auch von anderen Experten & sonstigen Autoren behandelt.
Ein großer Teil davon hat seine Basis von @julianbuchanan.bsky.social (ein ausgezeichneter Experte in diesen Bereich). Einige Mythen werden auch von anderen Experten & sonstigen Autoren behandelt.
📇:Vorwort und Rechtliches
Drogenmythen; Drogen, Mythologie, Mythen, Scheinargumente, Legenden, Überlieferungen, Trugschlüsse, Unwahrheiten, Lügen, Missverständnisse; Stigmata.
drug-mythology.blogspot.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Sehr, sehr viele Mythen und Vorurteile werden auf folgender Seite zerlegt: drug-mythology.blogspot.com
Ein großer Teil davon hat seine Basis von @julianbuchanan.bsky.social (ein ausgezeichneter Experte in diesen Bereich). Einige Mythen werden auch von anderen Experten & sonstigen Autoren behandelt.
Ein großer Teil davon hat seine Basis von @julianbuchanan.bsky.social (ein ausgezeichneter Experte in diesen Bereich). Einige Mythen werden auch von anderen Experten & sonstigen Autoren behandelt.