Adam Holland
@holla-adam.bsky.social
(he/him)
Public Health Consultant researching drugs and stigma at the University of Bristol
Public Health Consultant researching drugs and stigma at the University of Bristol
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We co-developed a resource with people with living experience of using pharmacies for substance use services, to support pharmacy teams to better understand what it feels like & reduce stigma. Free, just need to download. Please do share:
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Voice of the Voiceless - Bristol
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October 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We co-developed a resource with people with living experience of using pharmacies for substance use services, to support pharmacy teams to better understand what it feels like & reduce stigma. Free, just need to download. Please do share:
express-licences.bristol.ac.uk/product/voic...
express-licences.bristol.ac.uk/product/voic...
Reposted by Adam Holland
We've just published a scoping review of projects that aim to improve opioid agonist therapy (eg. methadone) in acute hospital settings: journals.plos.org/mentalhealth.... This is part of our excellent iHOST project (www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...). A couple of findings ...
Interventions to improve access to opioid agonist therapy in acute hospitals: A scoping review
Many people who use illicit opioids have negative experiences when admitted to hospital, which is partly due to poor availability of opioid agonist therapy (OAT). We conducted a scoping review of inte...
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May 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We've just published a scoping review of projects that aim to improve opioid agonist therapy (eg. methadone) in acute hospital settings: journals.plos.org/mentalhealth.... This is part of our excellent iHOST project (www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...). A couple of findings ...
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Are you LGBTQ+? Have you drank or used drugs? Please take my survey, in collaboration with The Rainbow Project. It's anonymous and only takes 15 minutes! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ulster/dru...
November 27, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Are you LGBTQ+? Have you drank or used drugs? Please take my survey, in collaboration with The Rainbow Project. It's anonymous and only takes 15 minutes! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ulster/dru...
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Looking forward to seeing the amazing crew from @transformdrugs.bsky.social next month
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Sheffield: Take Drugs Seriously
Drugs can be dangerous but does banning them cause more harm than good?
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January 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Looking forward to seeing the amazing crew from @transformdrugs.bsky.social next month
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Journalists: Let’s call time on news reports that refer to drug users as ‘zombies’ (and no, using quote marks does not make it ok)
It’s embarrassing and it leads the public into thinking drug users are subhuman
It’s embarrassing and it leads the public into thinking drug users are subhuman
In our new study (£0) we find that the use of dehumanising ‘zombie’ framing, frequently used in news reporting on drugs, leads to higher public stigma towards people who use drugs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
'Zombie drugs': Dehumanising news frames and public stigma towards people who use drugs
News media is an important determinant of public understanding of drug policy topics. Recent media reporting around the use of synthetic drugs such as…
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January 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Journalists: Let’s call time on news reports that refer to drug users as ‘zombies’ (and no, using quote marks does not make it ok)
It’s embarrassing and it leads the public into thinking drug users are subhuman
It’s embarrassing and it leads the public into thinking drug users are subhuman
Reposted by Adam Holland
In our new study (£0) we find that the use of dehumanising ‘zombie’ framing, frequently used in news reporting on drugs, leads to higher public stigma towards people who use drugs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
'Zombie drugs': Dehumanising news frames and public stigma towards people who use drugs
News media is an important determinant of public understanding of drug policy topics. Recent media reporting around the use of synthetic drugs such as…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
In our new study (£0) we find that the use of dehumanising ‘zombie’ framing, frequently used in news reporting on drugs, leads to higher public stigma towards people who use drugs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Adam Holland
Great to see this published the first of the outputs from the iHOST Project. Great collaborative work with colleagues across the UK incl. @jscottuob.bsky.social @niamhrelease.bsky.social @danlewer.bsky.social
Improving hospital care for people who use drugs: deliberative process development of a clinical guideline for opioid withdrawal management - Harm Reduction Journal
Background Management of opioid withdrawal in hospital settings is crucial to improve treatment completion and health outcomes among patients who use opioids, such as heroin. Evidence-based clinical g...
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November 18, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Great to see this published the first of the outputs from the iHOST Project. Great collaborative work with colleagues across the UK incl. @jscottuob.bsky.social @niamhrelease.bsky.social @danlewer.bsky.social