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[ EVENT: Jun 2 ] Wondering what response and recovery looks like after #Covid19? Join us over Zoom to discuss the complex issues surrounding health and wellness during a pandemic in: Wicked Health Challenge: Covid19 Edition. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/wicked-health-challenge-covid19-edition-tickets-106573052870 #COVID19Canada
The @SSA online #qualitative journal club has a new post: 'Qual study of the impacts of opioid related policy changes on ppl who take opioids', published in @ijdrugpolicy. Thx to Katherine Rudzinski et al. from @uoft_dlsph
https://tinyurl.com/y7oc9r98
Looking for survey participants: are you aged 18-25 and consider yourself to be a moderate or non-drinker? https://kentsspssr.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aXmEfry9FyYl5SB
Please share this far & wide, need as many participants as poss. Open to any suggestions of places to recruit. Thank-you. Please re-tweet!
WHO Q&A: #Tobacco and COVID-19 updated 27 May https://buff.ly/3cirQ3u #coronavirus #smoking @WHO
The National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training has published new guidance on delivering behavioural support and supply of NRT remotely, to help services adapt to the #COVID19 restrictions: https://buff.ly/2BfEiV9... #smokingcessation @NCSCT
Drugnet Europe: monthly news round-up (May 2020): https://buff.ly/2M6pCtw @EMCDDA