SDF and Government launch national campaign to help save lives
31 August 2021 A nationwide marketing campaign to raise public awareness of the signs of a drug overdose…
Browsing Category
SDF News
103 posts
E-learning on Overdose Prevention, Intervention and Naloxone updated for International Overdose Awareness Day
30 August 2021 Scottish Drugs Forum e-learning course on Overdose Prevention, Intervention and Naloxone has been updated to…
August 30, 2021
Latest Drugs Uncut episode looks at the carriage of naloxone from Police Scotland
25th August 2021 The latest episode of ‘Drugs Uncut’ – the Scottish Drugs Forum podcast – has been…
August 25, 2021
SDF collaborate with partners in reaching the target to eliminate hepatitis C
18 August 2021 Scottish Drugs Forum have recently collaborated on a successful three year study on how best…
August 18, 2021
Recognising Overdose – together we can #StopTheDeaths
3rd August 2021 #StopTheDeaths encourages all members of the public – including people who use drugs, their families and communities as well as services, policymakers and…
August 3, 2021
David Liddell: Treatment focus on heroin misses wider issues. Deaths involving cocaine and other drugs rise again.
2nd August 2021 Almost all Scotland’s drug deaths involve the use of more than one substance and 89%…
August 2, 2021
David Liddell: Change is needed to deliver a national mission as Scotland’s public health emergency continues
30th July 2021 These figures confirm that Scotland’s national public health emergency continues. These deaths are personal tragedies. …
July 30, 2021
New training course on viral hepatitis launches
21/07/2021 A new half-day training course on viral hepatitis, available to frontline staff working in services in Scotland,…
July 21, 2021
Scottish Drugs Forum launches survey on staff learning needs on sexual and reproductive health and blood borne viruses
4/6/21 The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Blood Borne Virus team at SDF are surveying staff working with…
June 4, 2021
‘Click and deliver’ naloxone service delivered 348 kits in its first year
28th May 2021 Over a year ago at a media briefing in Edinburgh, the former Health Secretary Jeane Freeman announced that “the Lord Advocate…
May 28, 2021