In this second episode from the Harm Reduction International Conference 2019, Carla and Annie catch up with Carol Strike and Gillian Kolla -- legends from the frontlines of the overdose crisis in Toronto, Canada, about police and their attitudes to safe injecting facilities, setting up an unsanctioned safe injecting site in a public park in Toronto and issues in doing research with highly criminalised communities.

Links

Creating and sustaining cooperative relationships between supervised injection services and police: A qualitative interview study of international stakeholders https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.08.001

A scoping review of harm reduction training for police officers https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.12904

Canada's overdose crisis: authorities are not acting fast enough

https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30040-4

Toronto Overdose Prevention Service

https://twitter.com/TorontoOPS

For more info on SpeakEasy: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/

Garth Mullins, host of the Crackdown podcast (and Carla and Annie's podcast crush), landed in the SpeakEasy lounge at the Harm Reduction International Conference to discuss the frontline of the war on drugs, bringing activism and science together and punching up (not down) with his podcast about drugs, drug policy and the drug war.

Links

Crackdown podcast

https://crackdownpod.com/

Garth Mullins

https://twitter.com/garthmullins

For more info on SpeakEasy: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/

In this episode of SpeakEasy, Annie and Carla chat to Emma Rafferty who is a Systemic Advocacy Lead at the Association of Participating Service Users (APSU) in Victoria. Emma gives SpeakEasy a ‘backstage pass’ to APSU’s new podcast series “Straight to the Source” and takes us through how the show is working to empower treatment consumers, increase the impact of people's own voices and create sustainable change at the system level.

Links

SHARC

http://www.sharc.org.au/

Straight From the Source podcast

http://www.sharc.org.au/association-of-participating-service-users/podcasts/

VMIAC - Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council

https://www.vmiac.org.au/

More info

https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/

Dr Lise Lafferty (CSRH and The Kirby Institute) joins Annie Madden and Professor Carla Treloar to celebrate her participation in the NSW Inspirational Women Showcase and discusses her unconventional path to a career in research.

NSW Inspirational Women: https://www.women.nsw.gov.au/news-and-events/nsw-womens-week/inspirational-women-online-showcase

More info: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/

The issue of pill testing at music festivals has literally filled the media this summer and is shaping up as a key issue in the upcoming NSW election campaign. To get the lowdown on this issue from the peer perspective, SpeakEasy sat down with Mary Harrod, NUAA CEO and Jessica Murray, one of the coordinators of NUAA’s Dancewize peer education and harm reduction program.

For more information: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/

In this episode Annie and Carla speak with the awesome Tony Trimingham OAM, CEO of Family Drug Support, founder of the Damien Trimingham Foundation and co-founder of Harm Reduction Australia about supporting families affected by alcohol and other drug issues, International FDS Day and how he became a leading advocate for drug law reform.

LINKS

Family Drug Support

https://www.fds.org.au/

International Family Drug Support Day 2019 – Sunday 24 Feb

http://internationalfdsday.fds.org.au/

Sydney – International Family Drug Support Day 2019 (Tuesday 26 Feb)

http://internationalfdsday.fds.org.au/2019-events/sydney-nsw-international-family-drug-support-day-2019

Harm Reduction Australia

https://www.harmreductionaustralia.org.au/

Tony’s book, Not my child, never my family

https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/self-help-practical/Not-My-Family-Never-My-Child-Tony-Trimingham-9781741755251

For more info: csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podca…carla-treloar/

And we’re back with Season 4 of SpeakEasy! In our first episode for 2019, Carla and Annie speak with writer, author and ‘woman of substance’ Jenny Valentish about her 2017 book, about what it’s like to ‘go public’ about your own drug use, about publishing realities and the response to her book from the media, her family and from other “women of substances”.

Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment: https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/woman-substances

For more info: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/

Annie and Carla wrap up the year that has gone by and reminisce and reflect on all of the guests that have joined them in the SpeakEasy lounge.

For more info: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/

Annie and Carla interview Fiona Patten, the leader of the Reason Party and a long-standing champion of sexual rights, sex worker rights and health issues such as HIV and AIDS. Not one to do things by halves, Fiona is also a small business owner of her own fashion label.

Links:

INHSU Twitter

twitter.com/inhepsu

Reason Victoria

https://reasonvic.org.au/

For more info: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/

In today's World Aids Day extravaganza, Annie and Carla interview Limin Mao covering a whole range of issues and cutting edge research.

Links

Sydney Gay Asian Men Survey

https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/media/CSRHFile/20156_Sydney_Gay_Asian_Men_Survey.pdf

Stigma Indicators Monitoring Project

https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/projects/stigma-indicators/

For more info: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/