Glyn Davies
@thomasglyn.bsky.social
Digital Health | Substance Use | Addiction | Treatment | Recovery | Criminal Justice
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🚀 Just launched: Change Grow Live’s Research Hub
Access cutting-edge research + fresh thinking on the biggest challenges in drug & alcohol treatment.
🔹 Youth-designed outreach for 16–25s
🔹 ADHD pathways + justice system
🔹 Hospital teams easing NHS pressure
www.changegrowlive.org/about-us/res...
Access cutting-edge research + fresh thinking on the biggest challenges in drug & alcohol treatment.
🔹 Youth-designed outreach for 16–25s
🔹 ADHD pathways + justice system
🔹 Hospital teams easing NHS pressure
www.changegrowlive.org/about-us/res...
Latest research from Change Grow Live
Our Research Team works at both local and national levels to connect, learn and act to reduce health and social inequalities in communities.
www.changegrowlive.org
July 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🚀 Just launched: Change Grow Live’s Research Hub
Access cutting-edge research + fresh thinking on the biggest challenges in drug & alcohol treatment.
🔹 Youth-designed outreach for 16–25s
🔹 ADHD pathways + justice system
🔹 Hospital teams easing NHS pressure
www.changegrowlive.org/about-us/res...
Access cutting-edge research + fresh thinking on the biggest challenges in drug & alcohol treatment.
🔹 Youth-designed outreach for 16–25s
🔹 ADHD pathways + justice system
🔹 Hospital teams easing NHS pressure
www.changegrowlive.org/about-us/res...
One of Alcatraz's last living inmates on Trump's plan to reopen prison - BBC News
May 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
One of Alcatraz's last living inmates on Trump's plan to reopen prison - BBC News
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Tech companies urged to join drive to cut crime
Top tech experts are meeting the Justice Secretary as part of a Government drive to use AI and technology to transform the justice system and cut crime.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Top tech experts are meeting the Justice Secretary as part of a Government drive to use AI and technology to transform the justice system and cut crime.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Tech companies urged to join drive to cut crime
Top tech experts are meeting the Justice Secretary as part of a Government drive to use AI and technology to transform the justice system and cut crime.
www.gov.uk
May 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Tech companies urged to join drive to cut crime
Top tech experts are meeting the Justice Secretary as part of a Government drive to use AI and technology to transform the justice system and cut crime.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Top tech experts are meeting the Justice Secretary as part of a Government drive to use AI and technology to transform the justice system and cut crime.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Our new research explores women's perspectives of effective substance use treatment & support.
It identifies six key characteristics of effective treatment & provides recommendations for central government, local authorities & service providers.
ow.ly/VASm50VIERz
It identifies six key characteristics of effective treatment & provides recommendations for central government, local authorities & service providers.
ow.ly/VASm50VIERz
April 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Our new research explores women's perspectives of effective substance use treatment & support.
It identifies six key characteristics of effective treatment & provides recommendations for central government, local authorities & service providers.
ow.ly/VASm50VIERz
It identifies six key characteristics of effective treatment & provides recommendations for central government, local authorities & service providers.
ow.ly/VASm50VIERz
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Bridging the digital divide in Probation
Dr Victoria Knight's guest post on her new Academic Insight for HMI Probation exploring how technology can help people on probation build better lives
www.russellwebster.com/bridging-the...
Dr Victoria Knight's guest post on her new Academic Insight for HMI Probation exploring how technology can help people on probation build better lives
www.russellwebster.com/bridging-the...
Bridging the digital divide in Probation
Dr Victoria Knight's guest post on her new Academic Insight for HM Inspectorate of Probation on Bridging the Digital Divide.
www.russellwebster.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Bridging the digital divide in Probation
Dr Victoria Knight's guest post on her new Academic Insight for HMI Probation exploring how technology can help people on probation build better lives
www.russellwebster.com/bridging-the...
Dr Victoria Knight's guest post on her new Academic Insight for HMI Probation exploring how technology can help people on probation build better lives
www.russellwebster.com/bridging-the...
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The consensus is broken and the USA is huddling up with a small group of authoritarian regimes. Interesting times in international drug policy.
🚨 🇺🇳 🌱🗳️ A #CND68 like no other ended a week ago. New political alliances are reshaping global #DrugPolicy and, for the 1st time, an independent review of the drug control machinery was agreed.
What does this mean? What comes next? Our key takeaways: idpc.net/blog/2025/03...
What does this mean? What comes next? Our key takeaways: idpc.net/blog/2025/03...
March 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The consensus is broken and the USA is huddling up with a small group of authoritarian regimes. Interesting times in international drug policy.
Amazing to see the first steps being taken towards justice.
Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte to appear in Hague accused of crimes against humanity over war on drugs – live
Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte to appear in Hague accused of crimes against humanity over war on drugs – live
Duterte faces charges over his years-long campaign against drug users and dealers that rights groups say killed tens of thousands
Few expected things to move so quickly. Supporters of the Philippines’ former president Rodrigo Duterte barely had time to…
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Amazing to see the first steps being taken towards justice.
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Today at 1pm. You can attend online, if you want.
Next week we are hosting Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social for a guest seminar on ‘Drug Policy Constellations: The Role of Power and Morality in the Making of National and International Policy on Illicit Drugs’. Find out more information & sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...
Select tickets – Alex Stevens: Drug Policy Constellations – Liberty Building
Abstract: Calls are often made for evidence-based policy. Alex Stevens' research on drug policy suggests that there is no such ...
www.tickettailor.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Today at 1pm. You can attend online, if you want.
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Just a few days away! ✨
The Power of Data Linkage
📅 27 February 2025
🕘 10:00 - 12:00
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The Power of Data Linkage
📅 27 February 2025
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Evaluating Public Health Interventions for Substance Use in Scotland (EPHeSUS): The Power of Data Linkage
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February 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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The Power of Data Linkage
📅 27 February 2025
🕘 10:00 - 12:00
📍 Online via Teams
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📅 27 February 2025
🕘 10:00 - 12:00
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🌈 As LGBT+ History Month Comes to a Close... Let’s Keep the Conversation Going 🏳️🌈
📖 Read "A Brief History of Queer Experience with Addiction and Recovery" by Tom Hill here:
🔗 sfonline.barnard.edu/a-brief-hist...
📖 Read "A Brief History of Queer Experience with Addiction and Recovery" by Tom Hill here:
🔗 sfonline.barnard.edu/a-brief-hist...
A Brief History of Queer Experience with Addiction and Recovery
It was summertime and we were having a get-together with my father’s family out in back of my grandfather’s farmhouse in southern Maryland. I was very young and sitting on my uncle’s lap and enjoying…
sfonline.barnard.edu
February 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🌈 As LGBT+ History Month Comes to a Close... Let’s Keep the Conversation Going 🏳️🌈
📖 Read "A Brief History of Queer Experience with Addiction and Recovery" by Tom Hill here:
🔗 sfonline.barnard.edu/a-brief-hist...
📖 Read "A Brief History of Queer Experience with Addiction and Recovery" by Tom Hill here:
🔗 sfonline.barnard.edu/a-brief-hist...
Trump’s Claim Of ‘Massive’ Amounts Of Fentanyl From Canada Is True Only In His Mind - HuffPost UK
February 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Trump’s Claim Of ‘Massive’ Amounts Of Fentanyl From Canada Is True Only In His Mind - HuffPost UK
Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht - BBC News
January 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht - BBC News
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Cost–benefit analysis of Canada’s Prison Needle Exchange Program for the prevention of hepatitis C and injection-related infections
www.cmaj.ca/content/196/...
www.cmaj.ca/content/196/...
Cost–benefit analysis of Canada’s Prison Needle Exchange Program for the prevention of hepatitis C and injection-related infections
Background: Needle exchange programs are effective public health interventions that reduce blood-borne infections, including hepatitis C, and injection-related infections. We sought to assess the retu...
www.cmaj.ca
January 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Cost–benefit analysis of Canada’s Prison Needle Exchange Program for the prevention of hepatitis C and injection-related infections
www.cmaj.ca/content/196/...
www.cmaj.ca/content/196/...
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Some letters were delayed for months after the transition to Securus' digital processing center. Others never arrived. Legal mail was delivered already opened. Letters intended for the processing center went to the mailrooms and vice versa.
By Sara Vogel:
By Sara Vogel:
In Texas Prisons, Digital Mail Further Isolates Those in Solitary Confinement
Kwaneta Harris was cleaning her cell when she came across a manilla envelope filled with letters. Letters bearing crayon drawings ...
filtermag.org
December 31, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Some letters were delayed for months after the transition to Securus' digital processing center. Others never arrived. Legal mail was delivered already opened. Letters intended for the processing center went to the mailrooms and vice versa.
By Sara Vogel:
By Sara Vogel:
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We made this short mockumentary film to highlight the ignorance and misplaced moralising that perpetuates failed drug policy in the UK
Don't be a Harold - Support Drug Reform
HT @cjalliance @mediatrust
youtu.be/-l3BZ2aqjLM
Don't be a Harold - Support Drug Reform
HT @cjalliance @mediatrust
youtu.be/-l3BZ2aqjLM
Don't be a Harold: Support Drug Reform
YouTube video by Transform Drug Policy Foundation
youtu.be
December 11, 2024 at 9:53 AM
We made this short mockumentary film to highlight the ignorance and misplaced moralising that perpetuates failed drug policy in the UK
Don't be a Harold - Support Drug Reform
HT @cjalliance @mediatrust
youtu.be/-l3BZ2aqjLM
Don't be a Harold - Support Drug Reform
HT @cjalliance @mediatrust
youtu.be/-l3BZ2aqjLM
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"We know overdose risk goes up upon release. But the day someone leaves prison isn’t the day they take on that risk; it’s the day they arrive."
By Jonathan Kirkpatrick and Kastalia Medrano:
By Jonathan Kirkpatrick and Kastalia Medrano:
Offering Narcan to Just the Prisoners Being Released Doesn’t Work
[Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series] One of the most commonly cited statistics in overdose prevention comes ...
filtermag.org
December 9, 2024 at 6:29 PM
"We know overdose risk goes up upon release. But the day someone leaves prison isn’t the day they take on that risk; it’s the day they arrive."
By Jonathan Kirkpatrick and Kastalia Medrano:
By Jonathan Kirkpatrick and Kastalia Medrano:
“Incarcerated populations… being up to 129 times more likely to die from an overdose within the first two weeks of release from custody than the general population…”
This startling statistic continues to get more and more saddening. 😮😪
medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...
This startling statistic continues to get more and more saddening. 😮😪
medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...
medicalxpress.com
November 28, 2024 at 4:05 PM
“Incarcerated populations… being up to 129 times more likely to die from an overdose within the first two weeks of release from custody than the general population…”
This startling statistic continues to get more and more saddening. 😮😪
medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...
This startling statistic continues to get more and more saddening. 😮😪
medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...
Australian Dictionary Chooses 'Enshittification' As The Word Of The Year - HuffPost UK
November 26, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Australian Dictionary Chooses 'Enshittification' As The Word Of The Year - HuffPost UK
Blueprints of prisons leaked on the dark web
news.sky.com/story/immedi...
news.sky.com/story/immedi...
'Immediate action' taken after blueprints of prisons in England and Wales leaked on dark web
Detailed blueprints have been shared online, said to include the locations of cameras and sensors, prompting security fears from both inside and outside the prison walls.
news.sky.com
November 23, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Blueprints of prisons leaked on the dark web
news.sky.com/story/immedi...
news.sky.com/story/immedi...
Egyptians drank cocktails of psychedelic drugs in ancient mugs, research reveals - Sky News
November 20, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Egyptians drank cocktails of psychedelic drugs in ancient mugs, research reveals - Sky News