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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
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The Drugs Wheel - Open Access paper describes the history of the development of taxonomies of psychoactive drug use, and discusses the conceptualization of three recent taxonomies: considering their application in education, treatment, and harm reduction settings www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Jump-starting the conversation about harm reduction: making sense of drug effects
This paper describes the history of the development of taxonomies of psychoactive drug use, and discusses the conceptualization of three recent taxonomies: comparing their features, and considering...
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New UK version of the Drugs Wheel - redesign, new drugs, and the depressant/dissociative debate 🧐

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August 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
New UK version of the Drugs Wheel - redesign, new drugs, and the depressant/dissociative debate 🧐

Download and details: www.thedrugswheel.com?page=DrugsWh...
August 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Loving their redesign of the Club Drugs Wheel with effects in a table below - better for legibility and will make future designs much easier! The Catalan version is hopefully coming soon…

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April 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Also - the Polydrugs Wheel adopted by www.drugsinfo.nl and embedded into their training

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Ontdek het drugswiel
Het Drugswiel is een uniek model dat op een heldere en gestructureerde manier inzicht biedt in de werking en effecten van verschillende middelen.
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April 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reposted by The Drugs Wheel
Blog from @transformdrugs.bsky.social on the opening of the UK’s first safer consumption site. So many people from so many areas have worked tirelessly to make this happen. It’s an emotional journey on many fronts.

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Success - UK’s First Safer Drug Consumption Facility Opens | Transform
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January 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Reposted by The Drugs Wheel
Haven't quite figured out how to retweet from X to here, so....
December 5, 2024 at 6:43 PM
The Drugs Wheel - Open Access paper describes the history of the development of taxonomies of psychoactive drug use, and discusses the conceptualization of three recent taxonomies: considering their application in education, treatment, and harm reduction settings www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Jump-starting the conversation about harm reduction: making sense of drug effects
This paper describes the history of the development of taxonomies of psychoactive drug use, and discusses the conceptualization of three recent taxonomies: comparing their features, and considering...
www.tandfonline.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Drugs Wheel updates (long overdue!)

NPS version 1.1.0 and UK legal version 2.2.2 available from:Also - very proud to see the Finnish version in glorious colour in the new book by @AleksiHupli

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December 5, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Gearing up for a talk from the venerable @ProfDavidNutt on the New Science of Psychedelics @Drug_Science @markadleyR @UniofNewcastle
December 5, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Michael Linnell's NO2 briefing and a harm reduction summary are on the DrugWatch page:

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The Drugs Wheel: a new model for substance awareness
The Drugs Wheel by Mark Adley is a new model for substance awareness
www.thedrugswheel.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Long overdue, the German versions of the Drugs Wheel. Big thanks to @MvHeyden for the translations.

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December 5, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Lovely Canadian versions of the Drugs Wheel by @CATIEinfo:and

catie.ca/sites/default/… thedrugswheel.com/downloads/Drug…
December 5, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Thank you for all of your help with this - another project enriched by collaboration @clairesmiles87 @foundationdsm @FionaMabbs @NickHickmott @WithYouInKent

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Colourful taxonomies of drugs
Mark Adley and Guy Jones discuss three ways of visually representing drugs...
www.addiction-ssa.org
December 5, 2024 at 6:05 PM
The new DrugWatch N2O briefing by the venerable Michael Linnell is now available on the Drugs Wheel site:Michael's website is

michaellinnell.org.uk thedrugswheel.com/?page=drugwatch
The Drugs Wheel: a new model for substance awareness
The Drugs Wheel by Mark Adley is a new model for substance awareness
www.thedrugswheel.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:05 PM
The joys of @creativecommons number 319: a belter of a redesign by @gTtVIH from their article:Raising the bar for the next Club Drugs Wheel perhaps? @FMeasham @WeAreTheLoopUK

Qué hermosa versión de la Rueda. ¡Maravilloso!

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December 5, 2024 at 6:05 PM
First drafts of the Romanian Drugs Wheels- it would be great to get feedback on these from local drug services...

@AFEW_Int
@IDPCnet
@drugreporter
@CastleCraig

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December 5, 2024 at 6:05 PM
The next generation of the Drugs Venn, amended following your Twitter comments. Going back to the three main categories has appealed particularly to young people's drugs workers - we welcome feedback on this draft collaboration with @NickHickmott @clairesmiles87 @FionaMabbs 1/3
December 5, 2024 at 6:05 PM
A free paper feat. the Drugs Wheel and Drugs Venn models. Authored by @markadleyR, @FMeasham and @PolicyChange
Video:Press release:Paper:@WeAreTheLoopUK @UniofNewcastle @LivUni
Thank you @TheNewImpostor

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The Drugs Wheel: a new model for substance awareness
The Drugs Wheel by Mark Adley is a new model for substance awareness
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December 5, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Revised version of the Belgian Drugs Wheel and Effects Wheel, with thanks to @JochenSchrooten

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December 5, 2024 at 6:05 PM
The Drugs Wheel making further reaches into Scandinavia...

May I introduce the Finnish version - Päihdeympyrä - with thanks to @AleksiHupli and @HPPry

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December 5, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Hot off the press 😀😀

The Swedish Drugs Wheel, Effects Wheel and poster versions:With thanks to @sbrukarforening

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December 5, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Motivations for use of pregabalin in the SUAB Webinar on homelessness and substance use - Rob Ralphs speaking #SUAB
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December 5, 2024 at 6:04 PM
A short film about the people and values behind Exchange Supplies:

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About Exchange Supplies
A short film about the values and people that lie behind our mission to make the world a better place reducing drug related harm.
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December 5, 2024 at 6:04 PM