John Robins

@jkelovuori @ArielleSelya @KingsNRG Sadly not fictional

@ArielleSelya @KingsNRG Worst 'Stop Smoking Advisor' ever. I hope it's fictional, but I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't.

Incredible closing keynote by Prof Debbie Robson on treating people who smoke with respect, understanding their challenges, and seeing them as "more than a smoker who can't quit" @KingsNRG #SRNTE2025

Risk factors for suicide attempts in community alcohol treatment medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

RIP MC Conrad, an absolute titan of drum and bass and the soundtrack of my youth. Gone way too young...

Our recent open-access paper evaluating inpatient tobacco dependence treatment based on the Ottawa model, in two South London hospitals @KingsNRG @ARC_S_L bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

"...meth use is hard on your heart. So is sleeping outside. So is prison. So is poverty... but we don’t single out any of them to put on the death certificate; we do with meth, though." filtermag.org/meth-overdose-…

@CommieBirder Impressive age for a lapwing

@danlewer Verschlimmbesserung is a beautiful German word. To improve for the worse...

We approach responding to peer reviews as an attempt to placate the reviewers and get the paper "over the line", rather than an attempt to improve the study. Sometimes we make it worse. It's frustrating both as an author and reviewer

O M G Timeline Cleanse: shelter dogs being able to pick a toy for Christmas.

@qalghafri295 @SSA_Addiction @PollyRadcliffe Well deserved, congratulations!

Ended the @SSA_Addiction #SSAConf2022 with my poster winning the best visual design award! This study is part of my PhD and is currently under review for publication. Big thanks to my amazing supervisors Gail Gilchrist & @PollyRadcliffe who are also co-authors in the study.

@CommieBirder That's brilliant, well done. I've been doing a bit of running myself, though my times are nothing like as good as yours - I'm chuffed if I get a sub 30 min 5k!

@CommieBirder you're a machine

@CommieBirder Nice! Good luck.

New Plato’s cave just dropped twitter.com/SlenderSherbet…

A big thank you to @sarahledden, @johnrobinsKCL, and Alex Rossiter from @samaritans for fantastic presentations about #alcohol and #suicide and #RCPsychIC. Your talks and the discussion afterwards was food for thought.

Honored to have been able to speak about my work at @rcpsych Internation Congress with @sarahledden @samaritans and @KalkNicola . #RCPsychIC #RCPsychIC22. Thank you for inviting me, and for the stimulating discussion from all who attended.

This sample gave a sample of 650 people. @JohnRobinsKCL used Latest Class Analysis (LCA) to examine alcohol-using behaviour. 5 factors were examined to determine alcohol dependence. LCA was used to determine which classes end up in crisis care - or die. #rcpsychic

LCA determined a three-class system best fit the data - low-risk drinkers, binge drinkers, and dependent drinkers. We can see major differences in drinking profiles between the classes. #rcpsychic

The binge drinkers class actually has LOWER risk of death or recontact with emergency crisis care than the reference (low-risk) class - whereas the dependent drinkers class has more than DOUBLE the risk. This should inform crisis care policies, says @JohnRobinsKCL at #RCPsychic

Crisis care has become more inclusive - in 2001 alcohol misuse was a diagnosis of exclusion with regard to crisis resolution/home treatment teams.