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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02 Aug
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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Report recommends that UK Government abandon strategy pursued for the last decade
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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Staying hydrated when using substances
We are not always used to sunshine in Scotland and therefore people can forget the risks of dehydration in the
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Scottish Government outline £50m investment
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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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 people who
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Applications open for new Scottish Government funding
1st June 2021 Applications have opened for four funds previously announced by Minister for Drugs Policy, Angela Constance. The funds
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