#JobApplications #Hiring 🇬🇧 #UK 👥 Release 🍄 #HarmReduction ⚖️ #Law • «Joint Head of Legal Services» OR «Legal Director» (depending on experience). • «Legal Adviser» 🗓️ Deadline: Monday 23rd #February2026 🕖 17:00 GMT

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If #Valve ever forces age verification I will delete my account & never return to the platform.

Fuck age verification. It makes the web less safe for everyone, especially those it's claiming to protect.

If you're not comfortable with the idea of deleting accounts that are twenty years old, better start talking to your community or therapist about lessons on impermanence.

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#DULF Challenge: #HealthCanada
Official Flounders on the Stand

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Many people overconsume edibles because onset is delayed, not because tolerance is high ⏱️🍽️
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#JobApplications #Hiring 👥 @eltonjohnaidsfoundation.org@bsky.brid.gy 🍄 #HarmReduction Consultant for: «Impact evaluation of the Foundation's People Who Use Drugs Portfolio Strategy» 🗓️ Deadline: Sunday 15th #February2026, 23:59 GMT 📄 Details. 📧 Queries and proposals: miguel.camacho@eltonjohnaidsfoundation.org

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Harm Reduction 101 with Les Nocturnes

QPIRG Concordia, Friday, January 23 at 06:30 PM EST

join us jan 23rd for harm reduction 101 with Les Nocturnes! at QPIRG concordia (2100 guy st, #205) from 6:30 - 8:30 pm!

we’ll cover:

✶ how to recognize the signs of an overdose

✶ how to administer naloxone

✶ general harm reduction practices/information

Les Nocturnes is a street-solidarity group committed to collective liberation, community-care, and fostering connection with people facing systemic oppression.

no experience needed, free + open to all:)

i hope to see you there <3

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You don’t have to approve of substance use to support harm reduction. You just have to care whether people live or die.

Harm reduction is risk management, not endorsement.

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Cold vs Hot Start Dabs — Quick Breakdown

• Cold Start: lower temps, preserved terpenes, smoother inhale.
• Hot Start: higher temps, instant vapor, stronger effects.

Both have their purpose, your preference decides the experience.

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#JobApplications #Hiring 🇪🇺 #Europe 👥 #EuroNPUD 🍄 #HarmReduction «Communications Coordinator» consultant 🗓️ Deadline: Friday 23rd #January2026, 23:59 CET 📄 Details. 📧 CV, portfolio and references to: info@euronpud.net

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Trump Is Betting MAGA Fans Will Relish an Expanded War on Drugs

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@afewbugs
i mean, for people who would like to be knocked in the head to reduce harm, i'm always there to help.

for the people who advocate #gaschamber as #harmreduction, i don't have the full equipment but i believe plastic bags work just as well.

i am saying this in jest of course, but the sad truth is that the threats from the #gaschamber advocates are genuine and deadly. 😔

i am thankful that you eat #vegan but i am always astounded when someone finds it "imposing" to ask others to eat #plantbased while genuinely considering gassing kids as #harmreduction. 💨🐷

i believe that is what #stevebest would describe as #vegan #stockholmsyndrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHDTZniuzyc

Neumarkt nach Schweizer Vorbild.

Seit Monaten diskutiert Köln das Zürcher Modell für die niedrigschwellige #Suchthilfe. Es fällt dabei auf, dass aus der Politik - je nach politischer Richtung - nur einzelne Aspekte des Modells herausgegriffen werden. Es bedarf jedoch ein integrales Gesamtkonzept. Hier mein Gastbeitrag im KSTA.

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5 Hidden Ways the Gambling Industry Engineers Harm

Introduction: The Illusion of Choice

For many, gambling is seen as a form of entertainment, a voluntary activity where personal responsibility is paramount. We’re told to gamble responsibly. But, if things go wrong, the blame is often placed on the individual’s lack of self-control. 

But what if that entire narrative is a dangerous fiction?

A new public health study reveals gambling harm is not an unfortunate side effect of a few people’s poor choices. Instead, it is the calculated outcome of a powerful and deliberate “gambling ecosystem” designed to maximize profit at a severe human cost.

This system operates using tactics that public health experts call the “commercial determinants of health.” The same strategies used by the tobacco and fossil fuel to drive profit by undermining public wellbeing. 

This post will reveal five of the most impactful insights from the study, exposing the hidden truths of an industry that has mastered the art of engineering harm.

1. The “Responsible Gambling” Slogan is Designed to Blame YOU

The familiar phrase “gamble responsibly” is not a genuine public health message but a strategic discourse meticulously promoted by the industry. The primary function of this narrative is to shift the focus, and the blame, onto the individual consumer.

By framing harm as a personal failing, it deflects attention. It deflects it from:

• Predatory industry practices
• Unsafe products
• A system that profits from addiction

This blame-shifting has severe consequences, creating a culture of shame that prevents people from seeking help and isolates them when they are most vulnerable. As the study’s authors note: 

This emphasis on individual responsibility diverts attention from the practices of the industry. It generates stigma and shame for those harmed. It downplays serious harms caused by gambling. Worst of all: it contributes to the suicide toll. 

This psychological framing is so damaging because it convinces individuals that their suffering is their own fault, making it harder to recognize the external forces at play and seek the support they need. 

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2. The Gambling Industry’s Goal is For You to “Play to Extinction”

Behind the glamorous advertising and messages of entertainment lies a stark and chilling internal objective. The study highlights a term used by gambling industry representatives to describe their core aim: “playing to extinction.” 

This isn’t an exaggeration; it’s the industry’s own vocabulary for its business model:

“…gambling industry representatives describe their aim is to maximise revenue per available customer (revpac), and encourage ‘playing to extinction’, the point at which a customer has exhausted all available funds.”

The phrase has a chilling double meaning.

It refers to the financial extinction of a customer’s funds, but in the context of gambling-related suicide, it acquires a much darker significance.

The industry’s profit model depends on pushing customers into the exact states of financial ruin and profound despair that are known precursors to suicide. It is a business model that treats human crisis as a key performance indicator. Rather than a tragic crisis.

3. Products are Engineered to Undermine Your Control

Modern gambling products, especially digital ones, are not simple games of chance. They have been intentionally intensified with features like:

• Increased speed
• High complexity
• “Frictionless” transactions

All designed to encourage extended use and bypass a person’s executive function. 

The industry also employs digital tactics like sludging. Deliberately designing interactions to make it difficult for customers to act in their own best interest. Such as withdrawing funds or closing an account. This tactic also manifests physically. For 15 years, the Australian industry has resisted modern, universal pre-commitment systems that allow users to set binding loss limits. Instead, it has relied on a form of physical sludging: “manual, paper-based self-exclusion” that requires a person to fill out separate forms for every single venue they wish to avoid. 

Product design also deploys psychological tricks to encourage overspending.

The study points out that a single ticket in the Australian “Powerball” lottery can be priced as high as AUD$46,249.65. This serves as a psychological anchor. While few would buy it, its existence makes spending smaller—yet still exorbitant—amounts like hundreds or thousands of dollars seem reasonable by comparison.

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4. “Good Causes” are Used as a Smokescreen

A common defense of the gambling industry is that it funds worthy causes, from sports teams to community charities. The research argues this is a calculated strategy to create an “‘alibi’ to legitimise gambling operations” and procure a “social license” to operate. 

This linkage creates a “symbiotic, reflexive relationship” where community groups become financially captured. Reliant on gambling revenue, these beneficiaries become powerful allies in resisting reforms that could threaten their funding, even if those reforms would reduce harm. This insidious dependency creates a powerful barrier to reform. 

As one researcher observed, the dynamic is inescapable: 

… at first the lottery was primarily dependent on the good cause and then, gradually, the good cause became increasingly dependent on the lottery. 

5. The Gambling Industry Distorts Science and Influences Policy

Like the tobacco and fossil fuel industries before it, the gambling ecosystem actively works to control and distort the scientific evidence base to protect its interests. The study identifies two key tactics: 

• Funding “safe” research: The industry funds and promotes research focused on the individual, such as the influential “pathways model.” This model frames gambling harm as an artifact of pre-existing conditions like “antisocial personality disorder,” thereby shifting blame from the addictive product to the flawed consumer. 
• Discrediting effective solutions: The ecosystem publicly casts doubt on proven harm-prevention tools. The paper cites an industry-linked researcher who claimed that universal pre-commitment systems might have a “detrimental effect and may aggravate the problem.” Crucially, the study notes that a subsequent review of the evidence cited for this claim found “no support for this conclusion,” noting the studies had significant “methodological limitations.” This reveals a pattern of distorting weak evidence to undermine effective public health measures. 

This distortion of science is coupled with political donations and the “revolving door”—where politicians and staff take industry jobs after leaving office—to block or delay meaningful reforms that could save lives.

Conclusion: Shifting from Individual Blame to Systemic Accountability

The evidence is clear: gambling harm is not a simple story of poor individual choices. It is the predictable and profitable result of a commercial system meticulously designed to addict users, shift blame, and protect its revenue streams at all costs. From manipulative product design to the distortion of science, the gambling ecosystem functions as a commercial determinant of health, actively generating and sustaining harm. 

This reframing moves the problem from one of personal responsibility to one of systemic accountability. Seeing the deliberate system that drives these harms, what does real responsibility—from our governments, communities, and the industry itself—truly look like?

Are you looking for more reputable data-backed information on sexual addiction? The Mitigation Aide Research Archive is an excellent source for executive summaries of research studies.

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⚠️ HARM REDUCTION (6/6)

• Fasting: 20h+ fasting with this tea can amplify panic-like symptoms. Eat if you feel "too light."
• #Tyrosine: Can be too much for sensitive systems combined with this stack. Start low.
• #Magnesium (glycinate): Helps reset in the evening.
• Rotation: Don't use daily to maintain sensitivity.

Highly individual. Respect your sleep and stress levels.

#HarmReduction #ADHD #YerbaMate #Rhodiola #LTheanine #BrainHealth

Alright, the book is edited a d online. Going to be working on the zines now! Argh im getting stage fright and its only the drafting stage. Haven't even gotten out the door yet.

#PoliticalPhilosophy #Autonomy #CivilizationDesign #HarmReduction #SocialPhilosophy

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