Some of you may have heard about a website called 'The Silk Road', well I'm lucky enough to know someone who has taken the time to not only have a very good look around the site, but also spend the time writing an article on the subject.

Today's article is by Monica Barratt adapted from one she published on her own site 'Drugs Internet and Society'.

Here is an update article from Dr. Stephen Parkin about the issues of blue lights in public toilets. This is something he's wriiten about before on here and it's an important topic for harm reduction.

Although I occasionally have guest articles here on Injecting Advice they do tend to be ones where I've asked the writer if they'll do it for me. But this week I read a great opinion piece by Kathryn Daley about peoples arguments against supervised injecting facilities. This piece deserves to be seen by more people (and more people should read her great blog) so I asked her if she'd let me repost it here. (Please note that Kat is Australian so there are some references to localised politics.)

Magdalena Harris has been good enough to write a guest article for Injecting Advice based on the great presentation she gave at both the National Conference of Injecting Drug Use (NCIDU) and at this years IHRA conference in Beruit. I saw her present at the NCIDU and was blown away by her talk as it focused on something so many people forget, the 'protective factors' that stop people getting BBV infections.