3 March 2023 Today sees the publication of a new report, Working To Decriminalise People Who Use Drugs which describes
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New SDF Report on Progress Towards Decriminalisation
Tag: Dave Liddell
24 Jan
New drugs trend raises concern
24 January 2023 Public Health Scotland has today issued an alert concerning the availability of synthetic opioids in Scotland. There
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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, Chair of
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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 Training (AWTP)
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Staff Changes at SDF
4th July 2022 A restructure within the management team at Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) will allow more efficient management and
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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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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 providing medication
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