SDF Conference Presentations Archive
2019
‘Bridging That Gap’ – Delivering Scotland’s Mental Health and Drug Strategies
14th of March, 2019
DoubleTree by Hilton
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Prioritise People and their Complexities Over Drugs
– Dr Carl Hart, Columbia University, New York
Integrating the Dis-Integrated
– Calum Hendrie, Specialist Counselling Pyschologist, NHS Lanarkshire
A Story About Recovery
– John McCormack, Scottish Recovery Network
Trans Mental Health and Access to Inclusive Recovery Services
– Oceana Maund, Scottish Trans
Mental Health and Trauma
– Joe Tay and Sue Hudson Crawford
2018
‘Ups and Downs’ – Changes in Patterns of Drug Use in Scotland, Harms and Service Responses
10th of October 2018
Radisson Blu Hotel, Edinburgh
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Crack Cocaine Use Amongst Heroin Users in Lothian
– Carmen McShane, Turning Point Scotland
Drug Use Trends in Fife
– Gareth Balmer, Harm Reduction Fife, Addaction
Just Say Know: Emerging Drug Trends
– Katy MacLeod, Scottish Drugs Forum
Working together to prevent drug-related deaths
30th of August 2018
DoubleTree by Hilton, Glasgow
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Harm Reduction in Canada: Lessons Learned and Reflections
– Marilou Gagnon, University of Victoria
Staying Alive: How to Prevent Drug-Related Deaths
– Alan McRobbie, Scottish Drugs Forum
Preventing Drug-Related Deaths in a Custodial Setting
– Bob Bartlett, Scottish Prison Service
How the Third Sector Works to Reduce Harm
– Danny Kelly, Gowrie Care
Older People Who Use Drugs
– Graham MacKintosh, Scottish Drugs Forum
‘How do we talk about drug use and people who use drugs?’
19th of June 2018
Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
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Reframing Poverty – Six Ways to Open Minds
– Tamsyn Hyatt, Frameworks Institute
The Development and Delivery of Peer Research
– Rebekah Moore, Emma Hamilton and Gayle Hamilton, SDF
‘Seek, Keep, Treat’ – What does it mean for service provision?
20th of March 2018
Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
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What brings us to reach (Seek), Engage (Keep) and Support (treat)
– Dr Lesley Graham, ISD Scotland
Working with older people with drug-related problems
– Dr John Budd, Edinburgh Access Practice
Models of Practice: Employability
– John Hinton, Move On
Housing First
– Emma Hamilton, Scottish Drugs Forum
Embedding Advice in Health
– Roddy Samson, Improvement Service
2017
‘Preventable, Not Inevitable’ – The Evidence and Practice Changes to Reduce Drug-Related Deaths in Scotland
30th of August 2017
Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
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Drug-related deaths in the UK
– Alex Stevens, University of Kent
Role of pregabalin and gabapentin in drug-related deaths
– Graeme Henderson, University of Bristol
Forensic Toxicology – Findings in Drug-Related Deaths
– Hazel Torrance, University of Glasgow
Citywide Naloxone Peer Supply Model 2017
– Steff Kerr, NHS Recovery Coordinator
Non-fatal overdose amongst opiate users in Wales
– Josie Smith, Public Health Wales
Gabapentin Survey Results
– Danny Hutcheson & Lorraine Simpson, Naloxone Peer Educators
‘Drug Policy Through a Health Lens’ with the Scottish Government, Partnership for Action on Drugs in Scotland (PADS) in partnership with Scottish Drugs Forum
26th of July 2017
Trades Hall, Glasgow
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Stigma and people who use drugs – Celia Tennant, Inspiring Scotland, Chair PADS Communities Subgroup
Rapid Evidence Review – Elinor Dickie, MSc
Older people with a drug problem – John Budd, GP Edinburgh Access Practice Chair of Working Group
‘More Than Steroids’ – Scotland’s National Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs (IPEDs) Conference
22nd of March 2017
The Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
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The range of IPEDs, user populations and motivations for use
– Jim McVeigh, Director of Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University
The epidemiology of IPED users attending injecting equipment provision services in Scotland
– Andrew McAuley, Health Protection Scotland
Harms – presentations in clinical settings
– John Campbell, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Regional pictures of evolving practice – Dedicated worker in Aberdeen/shire – Finlay Colville
‘Empowering Service Users’ – The National Practitioner Forum for User Involvement Conference
2nd of March 2017
The Principal Hotel, Edinburgh
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Citizen participation, democratic innovation and the community empowerment agenda in Scotland
– Oliver Escobar, Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Edinburgh (Politics and IR), and Co-Director of What Works Scotland
Introducing delegates to the workbook and background information on its origins and development
– Martha Lester-Cribb, Evaluation Support Manager, Evaluation Support Scotland, Author “Why bother involving people in service evaluation?”
Former service user reflecting on his participation and side benefits to him personally through user involvement and as part of the recovery process – Jason Wallace, National Naloxone Training and Support Officer, Scottish Drugs Forum
SDF Seminar and Annual General Meeting 2017
8th of February 2017
Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
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2016
Working Together with Vulnerable Young People on Substance Use and Sexual and Reproductive Health
13 September 2016
Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
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Jennifer Young, University of Stirling and Dr James Taylor, University of the West of Scotland
Nina Vaswani, CYCJ, University of Strathclyde
Felicity Snowsill and Linzi McKerrecher, Cool2Talk, NHS Tayside
Innovative Approaches to Reduce Drug Deaths and Harms
International Overdose Awareness Day
31 August 2016
Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
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Marcus Keane, Ana Liffey Drug Project, Dublin, Ireland
Prof. Sir John Strang, Kings College London
Dr Saket Priyadarshi & Mark Rodgers, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Dr. Thilo Beck, Arud Centres for Addiction Medicine, Switzerland
Soapbar, Skunk, Annihilation… What’s happening with cannabinoids?
16th March 2016
Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
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Cannabis and Cannabinoids
– Celia Morgan, University of Exeter
Cannabis and Schizophrenia – a calculated risk? – Martin Frisher, Keele University
‘Ready Next Time’ – Outbreaks of infection in people who inject drugs in Scotland
26th April 2016
COSLA Centre, Edinburgh
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Outbreak of wound botulism among people who inject drugs in Scotland – 2014-15
– Dr Gillian Penrice, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
NPS injecting and severe infection: A public health led response
– Dr Hannah Austin, NHS Lothian
Informing the workforce: HIV Briefings
– Emma Hamilton, Scottish Drugs Forum
Infections in injectors in Wales
– Josie Smith, Public Health Wales
Harm reduction outreach team
– Kevin Hattam, Turning Point Scotland
NPS use in Lothian
– Linda J Smith, Harm Reduction Team, NHS Lothian
Ready all the time – Lessons from an outbreak of HIV in people who inject drugs
– Louise Carroll & Dr Catriona Milosevic, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
MRSA in people who inject drugs – Is Bristol special and different?
– Maggie Telfor, Bristol Drugs Project