New SDF Report on Progress Towards Decriminalisation
3 March 2023 Today sees the publication of a new report, Working To Decriminalise People Who Use Drugs…
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New drugs trend raises concern
24 January 2023 Public Health Scotland has today issued an alert concerning the availability of synthetic opioids in…
January 24, 2023
Scottish Drugs Forum’s CEO David Liddell to retire
13th December 2022 Dave Liddell, SDF’s founder and CEO has announced that he is to retire. Jim Stephen,…
December 13, 2022
People with lived experience of drug and alcohol problems complete supported employment programme and go on to work in services
11 October 2022 On Wednesday 28th September, 35 graduates from Scottish Drugs Forum’s award-winning Addiction and Recovery Worker…
October 11, 2022
Staff Changes at SDF
4th July 2022 A restructure within the management team at Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) will allow more efficient…
July 4, 2022
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: 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…
August 2, 2021
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Standards for Scotland published
01/06/21 The Scottish Government have published new standards for drug treatment in Scotland. The standards apply to services…
June 1, 2021