Olivia Willis
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783 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2017
last heard May 2021
Olivia Willis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you can hear more of Ariel on Download This Show this Friday.
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She'll be part of RN's all-female lineup for International Women's Day.
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And a programme not to miss this week is Science Friction with Natasha Mitchell, which features one of the world's first recipients of a uterus transplant.
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You'll meet Lolita, whose sister donated her uterus to
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No.
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Thirteen babies have been born via transplanted uteruses so far, with more to come this year.
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Lolita's little boy was baby number four.
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Tune into Science Fiction and this series called Future Uterus Sundays at 5 pm or Thursday mornings at 11.30, and of course any time as a podcast.
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I'm Olivia Willis and you've been listening to the Health Report on RN.
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Well, in Europe they refer to it as drug checking and there are services pretty widely available in yeah, kind of across Europe.
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I think it's between fifteen and twenty countries that kind of routinely have services available at festivals and also in the community where you can actually go to places and get drugs tested.
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But in Australia we've just had one trial so far, which was at the Groove and the Moo Festival in Canberra last year.
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Evidence that it reduces death i is tricky.
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Like any harm reduction measure, I think harm reduction experts or advocates will point that a clear reduction in deaths can actually sometimes be difficult to show because i as I guess interventions they can be difficult to evaluate.
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But in terms of reducing harm, yes, the evidence points to the fact that that it can be an effective way to reduce harm.
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So in in terms of evaluations from the services operating in Europe, that
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shows that having pill testing services can lead to less drug taking and can help people to consume drugs in a safer way.
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So whether that's um choosing not to take a drug that they intended to or taking a smaller dose of that drug after they've after they've had it tested.
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No, there's certainly no evidence from from the European trials or the the services that exist there that it would lead to an increase in drug use.
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And as I said, actually research points to that it could probably decrease um drug use and and decrease um drug associated harm, I suppose.
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