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
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Our February opening hours:
Monday - Thursday, 2-5pm
Saturdays, 4-7pm
Wednesday 11th, 7-10pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA
Come by for a casual chat, a look at @peoplesletters.bsky.social's amazing book selection, and your safer drug and sex supplies!
Monday - Thursday, 2-5pm
Saturdays, 4-7pm
Wednesday 11th, 7-10pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA
Come by for a casual chat, a look at @peoplesletters.bsky.social's amazing book selection, and your safer drug and sex supplies!
Our February opening hours:
Monday - Thursday, 2-5pm
Saturdays, 4-7pm
Wednesday 11th, 7-10pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA
Come by for a casual chat, a look at @peoplesletters.bsky.social's amazing book selection, and your safer drug and sex supplies!
Monday - Thursday, 2-5pm
Saturdays, 4-7pm
Wednesday 11th, 7-10pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA
Come by for a casual chat, a look at @peoplesletters.bsky.social's amazing book selection, and your safer drug and sex supplies!
February 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Our February opening hours:
Monday - Thursday, 2-5pm
Saturdays, 4-7pm
Wednesday 11th, 7-10pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA
Come by for a casual chat, a look at @peoplesletters.bsky.social's amazing book selection, and your safer drug and sex supplies!
Monday - Thursday, 2-5pm
Saturdays, 4-7pm
Wednesday 11th, 7-10pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA
Come by for a casual chat, a look at @peoplesletters.bsky.social's amazing book selection, and your safer drug and sex supplies!
The deadline to apply for our Legal Adviser role is coming up next week Thursday 5th February 2026 at 5pm!
Check out all the info and application details here: www.release.org.uk/vacancies
Check out all the info and application details here: www.release.org.uk/vacancies
January 30, 2026 at 12:46 PM
The deadline to apply for our Legal Adviser role is coming up next week Thursday 5th February 2026 at 5pm!
Check out all the info and application details here: www.release.org.uk/vacancies
Check out all the info and application details here: www.release.org.uk/vacancies
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Poverty is deepening.
🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning.
People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people.
This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning.
People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people.
This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
January 27, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Poverty is deepening.
🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning.
People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people.
This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning.
People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people.
This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
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🚨There is still an #AmberAlert in place 🚨
Worryingly, there have been NO updates on the situation since early December.
People are dying needlessly due to a lack of the right information...
#cychlorphine
metro.co.uk/2026/01/15/w...
Worryingly, there have been NO updates on the situation since early December.
People are dying needlessly due to a lack of the right information...
#cychlorphine
metro.co.uk/2026/01/15/w...
Drug ‘200 times stronger than heroin’ on London’s streets may have killed 13
A new synthetic opioid is hitting the streets of London - and leaving many dead.
metro.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 6:22 PM
🚨There is still an #AmberAlert in place 🚨
Worryingly, there have been NO updates on the situation since early December.
People are dying needlessly due to a lack of the right information...
#cychlorphine
metro.co.uk/2026/01/15/w...
Worryingly, there have been NO updates on the situation since early December.
People are dying needlessly due to a lack of the right information...
#cychlorphine
metro.co.uk/2026/01/15/w...
At the end of last year, @bigissue.com reported on three deaths related to a new synthetic opioid that had emerged - cychlorphine - and asked why local warnings and public information had been delayed getting to frontline services.
Read the full report here: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Read the full report here: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Warning over new opioid 200 times stronger than heroin as three dead within days
Questions mount over delays in informing frontline services about the threat from new synthetic opioid cychlorphine.
www.bigissue.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:28 AM
At the end of last year, @bigissue.com reported on three deaths related to a new synthetic opioid that had emerged - cychlorphine - and asked why local warnings and public information had been delayed getting to frontline services.
Read the full report here: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Read the full report here: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
We are also recruiting for a Senior Leadership Role in our legal team!
Depending on your experience, there is either a position as 'Joint Head of Legal Services' or as 'Legal Director' available.
For more information, head to www.release.org.uk/vacancies
Deadline: 5pm, Monday 23 February.
Depending on your experience, there is either a position as 'Joint Head of Legal Services' or as 'Legal Director' available.
For more information, head to www.release.org.uk/vacancies
Deadline: 5pm, Monday 23 February.
January 23, 2026 at 12:33 PM
We are also recruiting for a Senior Leadership Role in our legal team!
Depending on your experience, there is either a position as 'Joint Head of Legal Services' or as 'Legal Director' available.
For more information, head to www.release.org.uk/vacancies
Deadline: 5pm, Monday 23 February.
Depending on your experience, there is either a position as 'Joint Head of Legal Services' or as 'Legal Director' available.
For more information, head to www.release.org.uk/vacancies
Deadline: 5pm, Monday 23 February.
We are recruiting in our legal team!
We're looking for a Legal Adviser. This person will be delivering outreach advice and casework in benefits, housing and debt.
Deadline to apply is 5pm, Thursday 05 February 2026.
Full info and application details here: www.release.org.uk/vacancies
We're looking for a Legal Adviser. This person will be delivering outreach advice and casework in benefits, housing and debt.
Deadline to apply is 5pm, Thursday 05 February 2026.
Full info and application details here: www.release.org.uk/vacancies
January 23, 2026 at 12:29 PM
We are recruiting in our legal team!
We're looking for a Legal Adviser. This person will be delivering outreach advice and casework in benefits, housing and debt.
Deadline to apply is 5pm, Thursday 05 February 2026.
Full info and application details here: www.release.org.uk/vacancies
We're looking for a Legal Adviser. This person will be delivering outreach advice and casework in benefits, housing and debt.
Deadline to apply is 5pm, Thursday 05 February 2026.
Full info and application details here: www.release.org.uk/vacancies
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Step inside the UK’s first legal safer drug consumption room. In Drugreporter’s new video, Lynn MacDonald, service manager at The Thistle, takes us through a space built not only for life-saving safer use, but for compassion, dignity, and respect — putting care and humanity at the center.
Visiting The Thistle: The UK’s First Legal Safer Drug Consumption Room in Glasgow
A guided tour of The Thistle, the UK’s first legal safer drug consumption room in Glasgow, where care, dignity and life-saving harm reduction come first.
drogriporter.hu
January 23, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Step inside the UK’s first legal safer drug consumption room. In Drugreporter’s new video, Lynn MacDonald, service manager at The Thistle, takes us through a space built not only for life-saving safer use, but for compassion, dignity, and respect — putting care and humanity at the center.
Our January opening hours:
Monday - Thursday, 2-5pm
Saturdays, 4-7pm
Wednesday 28th, 7-10:30pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA
Come by for a cup of tea, a chat, a browse in @peoplesletters.bsky.social, and re-stock your safer drug supplies, anything for injecting, and safer sex supplies!
Monday - Thursday, 2-5pm
Saturdays, 4-7pm
Wednesday 28th, 7-10:30pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA
Come by for a cup of tea, a chat, a browse in @peoplesletters.bsky.social, and re-stock your safer drug supplies, anything for injecting, and safer sex supplies!
January 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Our January opening hours:
Monday - Thursday, 2-5pm
Saturdays, 4-7pm
Wednesday 28th, 7-10:30pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA
Come by for a cup of tea, a chat, a browse in @peoplesletters.bsky.social, and re-stock your safer drug supplies, anything for injecting, and safer sex supplies!
Monday - Thursday, 2-5pm
Saturdays, 4-7pm
Wednesday 28th, 7-10:30pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA
Come by for a cup of tea, a chat, a browse in @peoplesletters.bsky.social, and re-stock your safer drug supplies, anything for injecting, and safer sex supplies!
Yesterday marked a year since the opening of the Thistle in Glasgow - the UK's first drug consumption room.
We hope they are paving the way for many more similar spaces to open across the UK, especially with news in October that drug checking at the space has been approved by the Home Office.
We hope they are paving the way for many more similar spaces to open across the UK, especially with news in October that drug checking at the space has been approved by the Home Office.
January 14, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Yesterday marked a year since the opening of the Thistle in Glasgow - the UK's first drug consumption room.
We hope they are paving the way for many more similar spaces to open across the UK, especially with news in October that drug checking at the space has been approved by the Home Office.
We hope they are paving the way for many more similar spaces to open across the UK, especially with news in October that drug checking at the space has been approved by the Home Office.
The UK government has launched a consultation on expanding naloxone access, looking to change who can supply it and where it's available, notably without a prescription.
This is a good move as synthetic opioids like nitazenes have become a daily reality in drug supplies.
This is a good move as synthetic opioids like nitazenes have become a daily reality in drug supplies.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The UK government has launched a consultation on expanding naloxone access, looking to change who can supply it and where it's available, notably without a prescription.
This is a good move as synthetic opioids like nitazenes have become a daily reality in drug supplies.
This is a good move as synthetic opioids like nitazenes have become a daily reality in drug supplies.
This research continues for the next few months, please continue to spread the word with anyone you know who might like to take part. 🗣️
Email housing-project@release.org.uk or text 07450974967 for more information!
Email housing-project@release.org.uk or text 07450974967 for more information!
Our housing and drugs research project is now entering survey and interview stage!
If you - or anyone you know or work with - has experienced drug-related barriers to getting housing and you live in Cardiff, Belfast or Tower Hamlets (London), then we'd love to hear from you.
If you - or anyone you know or work with - has experienced drug-related barriers to getting housing and you live in Cardiff, Belfast or Tower Hamlets (London), then we'd love to hear from you.
January 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
This research continues for the next few months, please continue to spread the word with anyone you know who might like to take part. 🗣️
Email housing-project@release.org.uk or text 07450974967 for more information!
Email housing-project@release.org.uk or text 07450974967 for more information!
We're back on Instagram, but just as The Hub for now!
December 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
We're back on Instagram, but just as The Hub for now!
Very excited to see anyone who's coming down to The Hub for our Christmas evening tomorrow - karaoke, food, and harm reduction supplies and all the usual available as always.
Stay as long as you like or just drop in ✨
Stay as long as you like or just drop in ✨
Our Christmas day hours at the Hub will 7-9pm on Thursday 25th December! ✨ Everyone welcome ✨
No RSVP required - just show up to 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA. We'll be open that whole time, with no set time for food.
ask@release.org.uk / 020 7324 2989
Please spread the word!
No RSVP required - just show up to 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA. We'll be open that whole time, with no set time for food.
ask@release.org.uk / 020 7324 2989
Please spread the word!
December 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Very excited to see anyone who's coming down to The Hub for our Christmas evening tomorrow - karaoke, food, and harm reduction supplies and all the usual available as always.
Stay as long as you like or just drop in ✨
Stay as long as you like or just drop in ✨
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Little update from us in a very busy time and a massive thank you to all our supporters and donors and volunteers ✨️🎄❤️
December 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Little update from us in a very busy time and a massive thank you to all our supporters and donors and volunteers ✨️🎄❤️
A little reminder of our opening hours this next week... 🎄
Our December opening hours at the hub are the usual:
Monday-Thursday: 2-5pm
Saturdays: 4-7pm
Christmas changes:
Wednesday 24th December - CLOSED
Thursday 25th December - Keep an eye
Friday 26th December - CLOSED (as usual)
Saturday 27th December - 4-7pm (normal)
Thursday 1st January - CLOSED
Monday-Thursday: 2-5pm
Saturdays: 4-7pm
Christmas changes:
Wednesday 24th December - CLOSED
Thursday 25th December - Keep an eye
Friday 26th December - CLOSED (as usual)
Saturday 27th December - 4-7pm (normal)
Thursday 1st January - CLOSED
December 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A little reminder of our opening hours this next week... 🎄
Our Christmas day hours at the Hub will 7-9pm on Thursday 25th December! ✨ Everyone welcome ✨
No RSVP required - just show up to 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA. We'll be open that whole time, with no set time for food.
ask@release.org.uk / 020 7324 2989
Please spread the word!
No RSVP required - just show up to 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA. We'll be open that whole time, with no set time for food.
ask@release.org.uk / 020 7324 2989
Please spread the word!
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Our Christmas day hours at the Hub will 7-9pm on Thursday 25th December! ✨ Everyone welcome ✨
No RSVP required - just show up to 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA. We'll be open that whole time, with no set time for food.
ask@release.org.uk / 020 7324 2989
Please spread the word!
No RSVP required - just show up to 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA. We'll be open that whole time, with no set time for food.
ask@release.org.uk / 020 7324 2989
Please spread the word!
Our housing and drugs research project is now entering survey and interview stage!
If you - or anyone you know or work with - has experienced drug-related barriers to getting housing and you live in Cardiff, Belfast or Tower Hamlets (London), then we'd love to hear from you.
If you - or anyone you know or work with - has experienced drug-related barriers to getting housing and you live in Cardiff, Belfast or Tower Hamlets (London), then we'd love to hear from you.
December 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Our housing and drugs research project is now entering survey and interview stage!
If you - or anyone you know or work with - has experienced drug-related barriers to getting housing and you live in Cardiff, Belfast or Tower Hamlets (London), then we'd love to hear from you.
If you - or anyone you know or work with - has experienced drug-related barriers to getting housing and you live in Cardiff, Belfast or Tower Hamlets (London), then we'd love to hear from you.
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Christmas 2025 at Museum of Homelessness
❄️23rd December - community drop in, lunch at 1pm
❄️25th December 1-5pm Christmas Day extravaganza, meal at 2pm
❄️26th December - Boxing Day, brunch 10am - 1pm
ALL WELCOME
no need to book just come on over! 🥰
❄️23rd December - community drop in, lunch at 1pm
❄️25th December 1-5pm Christmas Day extravaganza, meal at 2pm
❄️26th December - Boxing Day, brunch 10am - 1pm
ALL WELCOME
no need to book just come on over! 🥰
December 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Christmas 2025 at Museum of Homelessness
❄️23rd December - community drop in, lunch at 1pm
❄️25th December 1-5pm Christmas Day extravaganza, meal at 2pm
❄️26th December - Boxing Day, brunch 10am - 1pm
ALL WELCOME
no need to book just come on over! 🥰
❄️23rd December - community drop in, lunch at 1pm
❄️25th December 1-5pm Christmas Day extravaganza, meal at 2pm
❄️26th December - Boxing Day, brunch 10am - 1pm
ALL WELCOME
no need to book just come on over! 🥰
Our December opening hours at the hub are the usual:
Monday-Thursday: 2-5pm
Saturdays: 4-7pm
Christmas changes:
Wednesday 24th December - CLOSED
Thursday 25th December - Keep an eye
Friday 26th December - CLOSED (as usual)
Saturday 27th December - 4-7pm (normal)
Thursday 1st January - CLOSED
Monday-Thursday: 2-5pm
Saturdays: 4-7pm
Christmas changes:
Wednesday 24th December - CLOSED
Thursday 25th December - Keep an eye
Friday 26th December - CLOSED (as usual)
Saturday 27th December - 4-7pm (normal)
Thursday 1st January - CLOSED
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Our December opening hours at the hub are the usual:
Monday-Thursday: 2-5pm
Saturdays: 4-7pm
Christmas changes:
Wednesday 24th December - CLOSED
Thursday 25th December - Keep an eye
Friday 26th December - CLOSED (as usual)
Saturday 27th December - 4-7pm (normal)
Thursday 1st January - CLOSED
Monday-Thursday: 2-5pm
Saturdays: 4-7pm
Christmas changes:
Wednesday 24th December - CLOSED
Thursday 25th December - Keep an eye
Friday 26th December - CLOSED (as usual)
Saturday 27th December - 4-7pm (normal)
Thursday 1st January - CLOSED
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We’ll be hosting a stall at the ‘Tower Hamlets Christmas Mutual Aid Market and Party’ on December 20th 🫂
Profits from the event will go to the Bangladeshi LGBTQIA+ movement @_therainbowtree ❤️
Poster design by ACT UP London artist @coniglibianchi
Profits from the event will go to the Bangladeshi LGBTQIA+ movement @_therainbowtree ❤️
Poster design by ACT UP London artist @coniglibianchi
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
We’ll be hosting a stall at the ‘Tower Hamlets Christmas Mutual Aid Market and Party’ on December 20th 🫂
Profits from the event will go to the Bangladeshi LGBTQIA+ movement @_therainbowtree ❤️
Poster design by ACT UP London artist @coniglibianchi
Profits from the event will go to the Bangladeshi LGBTQIA+ movement @_therainbowtree ❤️
Poster design by ACT UP London artist @coniglibianchi
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🚨RED DRUG ALERT IN #CAMDEN🚨
There are now THREE confirmed deaths in just the last 10 days linked to the presence of #Cychlorphine, a potent synthetic opioid with similar toxicity to Nitazenes
Why is no one speaking out publicly about this?
We can and must save lives!
There are now THREE confirmed deaths in just the last 10 days linked to the presence of #Cychlorphine, a potent synthetic opioid with similar toxicity to Nitazenes
Why is no one speaking out publicly about this?
We can and must save lives!
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🚨RED DRUG ALERT IN #CAMDEN🚨
There are now THREE confirmed deaths in just the last 10 days linked to the presence of #Cychlorphine, a potent synthetic opioid with similar toxicity to Nitazenes
Why is no one speaking out publicly about this?
We can and must save lives!
There are now THREE confirmed deaths in just the last 10 days linked to the presence of #Cychlorphine, a potent synthetic opioid with similar toxicity to Nitazenes
Why is no one speaking out publicly about this?
We can and must save lives!
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GNHo-Ho-Ho! Pull Up to our Xmas Bash & Platform Launch! 🎄🧭
This year we’ve been hard at work building Nightlife Navigator - a resource platform for the people. It’s finally time to show her off. Let’s get together as the nights draw in and celebrate each other! ✨
Free 🎟️: bit.ly/gnoxmas
This year we’ve been hard at work building Nightlife Navigator - a resource platform for the people. It’s finally time to show her off. Let’s get together as the nights draw in and celebrate each other! ✨
Free 🎟️: bit.ly/gnoxmas
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
GNHo-Ho-Ho! Pull Up to our Xmas Bash & Platform Launch! 🎄🧭
This year we’ve been hard at work building Nightlife Navigator - a resource platform for the people. It’s finally time to show her off. Let’s get together as the nights draw in and celebrate each other! ✨
Free 🎟️: bit.ly/gnoxmas
This year we’ve been hard at work building Nightlife Navigator - a resource platform for the people. It’s finally time to show her off. Let’s get together as the nights draw in and celebrate each other! ✨
Free 🎟️: bit.ly/gnoxmas
Our DJs for Saturday include Vanity Crystal - sound artist and DJ from London. She blends all-spectrum sonics into a mix spanning steamy, percussive and the wildest corners of DIY production 💿
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Our DJs for Saturday include Vanity Crystal - sound artist and DJ from London. She blends all-spectrum sonics into a mix spanning steamy, percussive and the wildest corners of DIY production 💿