🧵: Let 2024 be the year for reviving deeper solidarity between drug user and sex worker movements. We have lots to gain and share between us: we both know that criminalization hurts our health and everyone’s health

Our Christmas day hours at the Hub will 7-9pm on Thursday 25th December! ✨ Everyone welcome ✨ No RSVP required - just show up to 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA. ask@release.org.uk / 020 7324 2989 Please spread the word!

Reminder of our opening hours at the hub this week... 🎄

🚨#SWEP has been activated today in #London 🥶 If you or you meet anyone today who needs assistance accessing SWEP in #Islington please direct them to our Solidarity Hub until 4 pm & we will refer them in

"Drugs are not forbidden because they are dangerous, they are dangerous because they are forbidden,” said Peter Krykant, who "hit the global harm reduction scene with a bang," running unauthorized OPC from a van in Glasgow. Ppl who knew him pay tribute: filtermag.org/peter-krykant-…

As drug users, solidarity isn’t just important – it’s survival bit.ly/4plpiIa | read more ⤵️

Calling all #harmreduction practitioners & peer workers: @CoactTS’s one-day Safer Injecting training covers the latest in low-dead-space syringes, circulation systems, safer preparation & disposal. Sharpen your practice, reduce risk. eventbrite.co.uk/o/coact-tec…

Please help us spread the word and come say hi soon! We can't wait to share the new space with you

We are also both fundraising to support our expansion in 395 - On 22/11 @PeoplesLetters will be hosting a fun night of drag and music at Piehouse Co-op (SE8 5HD) On 06/12 Release will be dancing the night away, 10 PM til late at VFD (N16 7XB)

You can come shop at TPL and get a peek  of the space any day of the week now, 11 am to 7 pm. From the 3rd of November, the Hub will  operate Mon-Thurs 2-5 pm and Saturday 4-7 pm.

Follow us and visit our websites to learn more! On instagram, we are @/release_rugs and @/peoplesletters Our websites are peoplesletters.org and release.org.uk

We are moving the Harm Reduction Hub here - expanding our naloxone & safer supplies distribution, legal support and the provision of a welcoming community space for all.

Affordable space is scarce, but solidarity isn’t. This partnership grew from shared politics and community care.

We're joining forces and opening a shared space for harm reduction, radical literature and collective care, run by and for communities pushed to the margins: sex workers, queer & trans people, migrants, and people who use drugs.

Big news: Release × @PeoplesLetters (TPL) are joining forces at 395 Cambridge Heath Road

Our parent org, @Release_drugs got banned on instagram. We're trying to get it reinstated, and we need your help! Here are some instructions on reporting missing accounts, which can help raise our cause to Meta. Please help if you have an IG acct ⤵️ x.com/SSchlossenberg/status/…

Release insta got deleted!! Please, if you are on instagram go make a report to the tune of “Harm reduction charity account wrongfully removed - the account promotes harm reduction and thus mentions drugs, but it does not promote drug use. See release.org.uk for more”

Donate to the People’s Letters (formerly the Scarlett Letters) booksellers hardship fund. The way the workers have been treated is awful, simply because they asked for fixed hours and fair conditions. If you want to support the workers, put ur £ here: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-…

For those panicking about the purported oxycodone pills found in flour bags in Gaza— Here is some basic education on illicit drug markets that might help. 1. By definition, you cannot become addicted to OxyContin, or oxycodone after taking it once. Period. The definition of addiction is continued use of a drug over time despite escalating consequences. So someone who accidentally consumes a couple of oxy pills will not become addicted. Addiction risks increase when people take Oxy over a prolonged period of time and even then the iatrogenic addiction rate (accidental addiction resulting from a medical mistake) is only 4-6%. 2. Risk of overdose of Oxycodone when taken in small doses is low for adults unless they take large amounts or mix the drug with other drugs such as benzodiazepines (which they don’t have access to in Gaza). It is of course important that small children do not ingest the drugs. 3. Pressed pills that are smuggled are dangerous because we don’t know what is in them unless they are tested. And no— the number stamped on it doesn’t tell us anything. Most pills that are smuggled are counterfeit pills and yes people who manufacture drugs also stamp their supplies. So, in sum, unless the pills are tested, we don’t even know that they are oxy. 4. People who deal drugs, make drugs, or smuggle drugs do not give drugs away for free. So the pills found in the flour bags were not meant to be distributed to the public. From what I have seen in other cases, this looks to me like someone or some entity in Israel has been trying to smuggle the pressed pills into Gaza likely to the organized crime syndicate that Israel has been funding and arming. Why don’t I think it is purposeful contamination of the flour supply? There are plenty of cheaper, easier, & more lethal ways to contaminate flour than to put oxy in it and flour isn’t eaten raw. It is cooked, which would change the drug makeup. Basic chemistry.