Professor of Criminology @lawsheffield @sheffielduni. Trustee @HRInews & @cjalliance. My views, not theirs. Author: Drug Policy Constellations @BrisUniPress.
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Alex Stevens retweeted
18 Nov 2024
Here’s a URL to make it easier. The handles are a bit longer there so it saves typos. bsky.app/profile/profalexste…
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Off to Newcastle...
8 Nov 2024
Next week at #SSAConf2024 @SSA_Addiction, I'll present our realist review of overdose prevention centres as spaces of safety, trust and social inclusion onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #OA #OPCPrep
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Where is the evidence that league tables do anything but encourage managers to juke the stats? In schools? In universities? amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampp…
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A hint on why some UK universities are struggling to recruit senior staff in an international market where pay in UK HE is just not competitive. One of these jobs will be the pinnacle of a career. The other is entry level. The pay scales overlap.
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This is too little, too late, but still good to see a major economy take steps to reduce emissions #keepitintheground bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly0gzxg…
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11 Nov 2024
The whole university funding debate feels like we're fighting over scraps while missing the point: in a world where AI can do much of what we teach students to do, what are universities for?
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10 Nov 2024
It's fair to criticise the current higher education system, but this article repeats the fundamental mistake that it is at the heart of of the current problems, which is... 1/3
10 Nov 2024
It's pro-aspiration to ensure that young people are not being mis-sold poor-quality degrees and to ask who, exactly, is holding universities accountable for how they spend this generation’s future earnings.
My Observer column.
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... that going to university is just a pre-career finishing school, to be judged on financial return on investment. This cynical view of higher education misses its true purpose, which is to expand the scope of our humanity by creating and sharing knowledge. 2/3
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It is on that purpose we should focus when reforming HE, not narrow and misleading arguments on graduate pay. 3/3
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8 Nov 2024
Next week at #SSAConf2024 @SSA_Addiction, I'll present our realist review of overdose prevention centres as spaces of safety, trust and social inclusion onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #OA #OPCPrep
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Alex Stevens retweeted
7 Nov 2024
In Scotland, people with opioid dependence appear to have greater risk of suicide than the general population but suicide rates are lower among those on opioid agonist therapy. Read the research by Rosalyn Fraser @arjmcauley and colleagues @CaledonianNews buff.ly/4fwfZQr
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Alex Stevens retweeted
7 Nov 2024
PhD opportunity: The application of mixed and multi-level models for analysing real world data in the evaluation of complex evaluations in health and social care @DrAngelaBate Pls share :)
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7 Nov 2024
We talked about the importance of #harmreduction in the face of the ongoing crisis of drug-related deaths, with @GWShorter and @ProfDavidNutt #stopthedeaths
6 Nov 2024
🎙️Get caught up on the state of harm reduction in the UK: Drug policy experts Prof Alex Stevens and Dr. Gillian Shorter joined the Drug Science Podcast to discuss the effectiveness and controversies of current harm reduction approaches. drugscience.org.uk/podcast/e…
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6 Nov 2024
Starting where she left off. With a blatant lie.
❌ "His chancellor's Budget did not even mention defence”.
@KemiBadenoch made this claim about @UKLabour's Autumn Budget. This isn't correct.
Our fact check: fullfact.org/news/kemi-baden…
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6 Nov 2024
Will all the pundits who got it so wrong - again - now slink away and shut up? Please.
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The new 'county lines' threat assessment reports a reduction in serious violence in source cities, and a large increase in 'internal lines' within police forces. 1/3 news.npcc.police.uk/resource…
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The 2021 drug strategy promised to 'roll up' the county lines model of drug supply by targeted enforcement, including shutting down thousands of lines. 2/3
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What seems to have happened is what usually happens when you target a form of drug supply. The matket shifts to another form, with many more local lines in this case. 'You're always training the dog' 3/3 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
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