Professor and Addiction Scientist, Director National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.UNSW Past President of APSAD Tweet mix of personal views of my own.

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Here is the evaluation of the New South Wales Magistrate Early Referral into Treatment Program on court diversion, reporting positive results authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…

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Exciting opportunity to lead NDARC UNSW one of key global drug research center's is being advertised. See link. @ndarcnews candidates.perrettlaver.com/…

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RT @anneapplebaum: A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for…
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Ernie Ducker’s obituary in the NYT. A great herm reduction champion #https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/health/ernest-drucker-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare via @NYTimes
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II YEARS LATER TRUMP Pardons this fellow!! The closure of the Silk Road: what has this meant for online drug trading? - Van Buskirk - 2014 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Sorry to see that Emeritus Professor Nick Heather (1936-2025) has passed. He was the Inaugural Director in NDARC in 1986 and made a huge contribution to the field of Addictions Research Nick Heather - Wikipedia @NDARCNEWS
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Michael Farrell retweeted
RIP #ErnieDrucker. 1940-2025. A great pioneer and godfather of #harmreduction both in the US & globally. Helped create some of the first syringe exchange programs to reduce #HIVAIDS & helped start @housingworks & Doctors of the World, & much more. @HRInews @DrugPolicyOrg
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Michael Farrell retweeted
Contraceptives are a life-changing, life-saving tool that women around the world depend on to safeguard their health, their families, and their futures. But today the Trump Administration acted to reinstate dangerous global health funding restrictions that will limit access to contraceptives and other essential reproductive health services—which evidence shows will cost women and children their lives. I have heard from women firsthand about what happens when they lose the right to decide if and when to get pregnant, and it is why I am so steadfastly committed to putting more power in the hands of more women all over the world.
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Michael Farrell retweeted
Delighted my cousin ⁦@farrell_michael⁩ was recognised last night by ⁦@ucddublin⁩ for a lifetime of activism & dedication in supporting the marginalised. Not mentioned was internment & hunger strike when living in the north.Bravo Dr Michael Farrell! ⁦@QUBelfast⁩?
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You have probably both read but if not Michael Farrell's book The Orange State is well worth a read IMHO
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“I’ve read a lot of Joyce, but it’s just that Finnegans Wake is more than a book. It’s like it contains the world. . . . So owning it is like having the essence of everything. I feel like it might just as well be a Sumerian text.” - Patti Smith, born OTD in 1946
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The great American alcohol debate via @FT on.ft.com/4gAo4o5

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Devastated to see my lovely cousin Dr Martin Finnerty killed in Ballinrobe after a life time of service to his community. Ar dheis De a anam.
Passing of Dr Martin Finnerty described as ‘an awful blow ’ to Ballinrobe. mayonews.ie/news/local-news/…
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