31 August 2021 A nationwide marketing campaign to raise public awareness of the signs of a drug overdose and the
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SDF and Government launch national campaign to help save lives
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30 Aug
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 reflect current
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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 published and
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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 to get
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Government consultation opens to collect views on the expansion of naloxone provision
4th August 2021 An online government consultation has opened to collect views on expanding the use of naloxone. The consultation
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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 wider society
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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% involve the
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David Liddell: Benzodiazepines – we need to disrupt the criminal market and deliver on The National Mission to reduce drugs deaths
2nd August 2021 The latest drug death figures show a continued upward trend in benzodiazepines being implicated in the deaths
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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. Families and
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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, has been
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