Despite reports of expanding rates of injecting drug use in a new list of countries around the world, no new
Read More31 May
No expansion of needle and syringe programmes despite effectiveness
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30 May
Conducting research among hidden populations with Dr Miriam Boeri
A lunchtime seminar to be held in Edinburgh will discuss community-based research with a wide-range of drug using populations. Ethnography
Read More26 May
Celebrations at East of Scotland AWTP completion ceremony in Edinburgh
Ten graduates from the Scottish Drugs Forum’s award-winning Addiction Worker Training Project (AWTP) celebrated their achievements at a completion ceremony
Read More25 May
Global Drug Survey 2017 results provide insight into Scottish drug trends
Yesterday (24th of May) saw the release of the 2017 results of the Global Drugs Survey conducted in partnership with
Read More19 May
Ensuring everyone who can vote is registered
Scottish Drugs Forum are encouraging everyone who is eligible, to register to vote for the upcoming election on June the
Read More11 May
Call for written evidence on homelessness in Scotland
The Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Communities Committee has launched a call for written evidence on homelessness. The Committee has
Read More08 May
Programme hopes to help Scottish fathers with a drug problem engage with family life
Researchers are to examine whether a family support programme can protect Scottish children and help their fathers, who have a
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Maintaining opiate replacement therapy decreases chance of mortality
A new meta-study has found that staying in methadone and buprenorphine treatment protects against all cause and overdose mortality. The
Read More28 Apr
Fentanyl warning for North East England
The National Crime Agency (NCA) have issued a warning over a synthetic opioid recently detected in heroin supplies in the
Read More27 Apr
Calls to work together on increasing use of Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs by young people
In 2016, Fast Forward, an organisation that works with and supports young people, surveyed Scottish young people on their experience
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