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 wider society
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2nd August 2021 Almost all Scotland’s drug deaths involve the use of more than one substance and 89% involve the
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2nd August 2021 The latest drug death figures show a continued upward trend in benzodiazepines being implicated in the deaths
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30th July 2021 These figures confirm that Scotland’s national public health emergency continues. These deaths are personal tragedies. Families and
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21/07/2021 A new half-day training course on viral hepatitis, available to frontline staff working in services in Scotland, has been
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21/07/2021 The UK Home Office has published Part Two of Dame Carol Black’s Independent Review of Drugs. The report deals
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We are not always used to sunshine in Scotland and therefore people can forget the risks of dehydration in the
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24/6/2021 The Scottish Government have given initial outlines of the allocation of the announced £50 million investment: – £13.5
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4/6/21 The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Blood Borne Virus team at SDF are surveying staff working with people who
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1st June 2021 Applications have opened for four funds previously announced by Minister for Drugs Policy, Angela Constance. The funds
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