Coact is a Technical Support agency specialising in work with people who use drugs.

Joined January 2014
“To end the AIDS pandemic the world needs to move away from failed, punitive, stigmatising approaches towards a human-rights, community-led approach rooted in decades of experience and evidence.” Read @UNAIDS @winnie_byanyima’s letter to The Economist. economist.com/letters/2022/1…
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Great opportunity for bright legal minds keen to work for social justice for people who use drugs. Few better training grounds than @Release_drugs
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Amazing work from SCORE and @cranstounsand
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The war on drugs has provided the architecture where racist policing practices & mass incarceration can operate. Watch the discussion from our Decolonising Drug Policy webinar series with @defund_abolish, @graciemaybe & @Shanice_OM here: youtube.com/watch?v=OMxFuSRm…
Today at #CivilSociety webinar, UNODC experts explained the key findings of #WorldDrugReport. #CSOs received answers regarding global & regional trends on topics such as drugs & environment & the impact of cannabis legalization. Read #WDR💻 bit.ly/3yGnIc6 #CareInCrises
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Proud to have taken the stage with the @cranstounsand SCORE Team who lead research into the need and feasibility for OPCs in their community. @Coactteam @MatSouthwell @CranstounRia @simon_wollaston #PilotOPCs
Great to see the @Cranstoun_org Sandwell SCORE team on the stage at #ddbconf 2022 sharing the true value of lived experience in shaping how services are designed & delivered with @ben_scher1 @CranstounRia @simon_wollaston & @MatSouthwell
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3 months in operation, 30-45 supersized injections a day, 0 overdose deaths. Thank you to all the folk @OKANA_GR for giving me an incredibly insightful tour of your Athens DCR facility as part of ongoing research with @Coactteam
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Why I joined Coact blog post from Judy Chang @jude_yc tinyurl.com/JCCoact
Coact launches Peer NSP Project with CAHR programme. Time to champion Peer NSP @MatSouthwell
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New magazine to help London drug users fund habit legally, via Guardian, theguardian.com/society/2014…
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Thank you so much @JonDerricott1 for filming #HitHotTopics pro bono. Check out his brilliant films here youtube.com/channel/UCeHbriR…
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This is some of the least informed nonsense any government minister has come out in a while. Insulting & dangerous!
Malmo pilot shows that structured link with NSP and designated treatment slots creates an effective pathway for non-txt pops #harmreduction
Malmo pilot showed high retention rates (82%) after 1 year. #harmreduction
Malmo study shows mixture of nurse assessment, case mgt model and quick txt access engaged core NSP populations #harmreduction
In Malmo pilot 100 eligible NSP clients and 75% of complex population drawn into services overcoming traditional barriers #harmreduction
Dr Braback's. The trust in the NSP nurses was key to helping people using heroin to trust treatment services #harmreduction
Dr Martin Braback from Sweden talking about trial in Malmo for using NSP as route for heroin users to access treatment #harmreduction
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ENPUD agrees agendas for next year I defending rights and health of drug uses @MatSouthwell #IDUforum #форумЛУН – at Moldova