Minister reacts to cuts to drug and alcohol service provision in response to COVID-19 pandemic
The Scottish Government Minister For Public Health, Joe FitzPatrick, and the Interim Chief Medical Officer, Dr Gregor Smith,…
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David Liddell
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Additional £12.7 million funding in Scottish Budget to address harm associated with drug or alcohol use
The Scottish Government has announced £12.7 million in additional funding to address the harm associated with drug or…
February 7, 2020
UK Government announces date of drugs summit in Glasgow
The UK Government has announced that the much anticipated UK summit on issues relating to drug use will…
January 24, 2020
Scottish National Party back decriminalisation of drugs at party conference
The Scottish National Party has backed decriminalising the possession of drugs at a party conference in Aberdeen on…
October 14, 2019
Membership of Governmental Taskforce on drug-related deaths in Scotland announced
Details of a new Governmental Taskforce set up to address drug-related deaths in Scotland have been announced by…
September 5, 2019
SDF welcomes announcement of additional £20 million funding over two years for drug services in Scotland
Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) welcomes the announcement of an additional £20 million funding over two years for drug…
September 4, 2019
Blog: Poverty is the root of Scotland’s fatal drug overdose crisis
Scottish Drugs Forum’s CEO, David Liddell, was recently invited to write a guest blog post for The Poverty…
August 6, 2019
Blog: Lack of access to treatment and prescribing practice contribute to drug death figures
On the 16th of July 2019 , it was announced that 1,187 people had died of a drug…
July 16, 2019
Celebrations at the Scottish Parliament as AWTP trainees graduate and launch new careers
Sixteen graduates from the Scottish Drugs Forum’s award-winning Addiction Worker Training Project (AWTP) celebrated their achievements at a…
June 13, 2019
Highest ever rate of drug-related hospital admissions recorded in Scotland
Statistics on the number of drug-related hospital admissions in 2017/18 have been published by the Information Services Division.…
May 28, 2019