This month’s @DDNMagazine reports on @release_drugs legal challenge against a drug treatment provider who threatened to withdraw diamorphine from a group of patients

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A 🧵 on the case & the legal rights of people in treatment ✊

1/20 In 2019 a group of patients contacted the @release_drugs advocacy helpline, which has been running for over 20 years – originally set up as the heroin helpline by our beloved colleague Gary Sutton, who died in 2020, he was committed to the rights of people in treatment
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A THREAD

This just went live, the reason I brought it to the Guardian was that I was pretty shocked that part of the diligence checks for appointments included routinely checking what people has said about #windrush & #brexit regardless of the policy area theguardian.com/politics/2019/… I stand by what I said in that Tweet and my criticism of the Home office letter and here is why...