Scottish Drugs Forum
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HIV-AIDS Carers & Family Support Group - Support and services to carers, families, partners, friends.
British Liver Trust - National charity for adult liver disease.
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C~Level - A peer led one stop information and advice centre.
YouthlinkScotland - Aims to support the development of high quality youth work services which promote the well-being and development of young people.
Fast Forward - a national voluntary organisation based in Edinburgh. It promotes health through education by, with and for young people, focusing on the prevention of drug, alcohol and tobacco misuse.
Purple Youth - An online resource for professionals working with young people
Apex Scotland - National agency working with offenders, ex-offenders and young people at risk addressing employability needs.
SACRO - National agency safeguarding communities/reducing offending.
Scottish Crime and Drugs Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) - Scotland's drugs and serious crime law enforcement agency's website features information on policing, current drug enforcement and non-enforcement issues, and research in the area of problem drug use.
Drug Misuse Information Scotland - Provides information statistics and research on drug use in Scotland.
Health Protection Scotland (HPS) - the website of the organisation established by the Scottish Executive to strengthen and co-ordinate health protection in Scotland. It provides Information and statistics on communicable diseases including HIV and HCV.
National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) - the special health authority, created by the Government in 2001 to improve the availability, capacity and effectiveness of treatment for drug misuse in England.
Drug Action Teams - Local contact details.
Scotland Against Drugs (SAD) - Scotland Against Drugs campaign has been merged with the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives.
Correlation - a European network for social inclusion and health which works to improve the access to health and social services for social excluded people.
ERIT - The Federation of European Professionals Working in the Field of Drug Abuse.
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction - Provides information on drugs and drug use in Europe.
European Forum on Drug Policy - Informal forum of European drug networks to shape European drug policy and exchange information and best practice.
EWODOR - European Working Group on Drugs Oriented Research.
International Harm Reduction Association - Works with local, national, regional and international organisations to assist individuals and communities in the areas of public health advocacy, collaboration and communication, best practice, and education, research and training.
Transnational Institute (TNI) - A worldwide fellowship of committed scholar-activists which seeks to create and promote international co-operation in analysing and finding possible solutions to such global problems as poverty and marginalisation, social injustice and environmental issues.
ENCOD - The European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies is a network of European civil society organisations and citizens affected and/or concerned by current drug policies and wish to replace them with what it describes as "a balanced and rational approach".
Democracy, Cities and Drugs (DC&D) - This organisation is an alliance of 300 European cities and organisations involved in seven European civil society networks and it aims to promote local and democratically participative responses to the issue of drugs use.
Scottish Network for Families Affected by Drugs (SNFAD)
24-hour telephone helpline Tel: 08080 101011
The network of support groups for families and carers of drug users in Scotland.
Co-ordinator – Pauline Machin
SNFAD, 85 Berkeley Street, Glasgow G3 7DX tel 0141 221 0544 or email Pauline-snfad@btconnect.com
Parents Against Drug Abuse (PADA)
24-hour telephone helpline Tel: 08457 023867
National family support group organisation, based in Cheshire.
ADFAM - Organisation exists to raise awareness about the problems faced by families affected by drugs and alcohol.
Families Outside - Acts as a voice for families affected by imprisonment in Scotland.
VOCAL (Voice of Carers Across Lothian) - Provides information, advice, support, counselling and advocacy to carers, former carers and anyone working with carers.
HIV-AIDS Carers & Family Support Group - Support and services to carers, families, partners, friends.
Families Anonymous - for relatives and friends concerned about the use of drugs or related behavioural problems.
Annandale & Eskdale Family Support.
NHS Health Scotland - Scotland's national agency for health education,promotion,advice and information.
Council for Information on Tranquillisers and Antidepressants (CITA) - a Liverpool-based information and self-help group - including telephone helpline - to help patients and their families to cope with addiction to benzodiazapines and withdrawal from these drugs.
Benzodiazepine Addiction Withdrawal and Recovery
Drugscope - Centre of expertise for England and Wales.
HIT - Liverpool-based drugs information and training agency.
Lifeline - Online catalogue of Lifeline publications.
Know the Score - a network of drug-related organisations that provide information and advice on drug issues.
Release - Provides a range of specialist services to drugs users, family friends and professionals concering drugs and the law.
Mainliners - A charity working with ex and current injecting drug users.
Coca - an information, advice and training charity supporting drug professionals and organisations with issues relating to stimulant drugs such as crack cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and ecstasy.
Exchange Supplies - a social enterprise aiming to improve and prolong the lives of drug users by reducing drug related harm through the development and supply of effective equipment, resources and information exchange for drug users and drug workers and by providing employment and training for drug users.
Daily Dose - website featuring links to key news stories and research on drug and alcohol from around the world
Fast Forward - a national voluntary organisation based in Edinburgh. It promotes health through education by, with and for young people, focusing on the prevention of drug, alcohol and tobacco misuse.
Crew 2000 - Information about how to reduce the risks involved in using drugs.
Cannabis help - HIT, the Liverpool-based drugs information and training agency's self-help website to enable cannabis users to cut down or stop using cannabis.
Coca - an information, advice and training charity supporting drug professionals and organisations with issues relating to stimulant drugs including amphetamine and ecstasy.
Centre for Addiction Research and Education Studies, (CARES), University of Dundee - a multi-disciplinary research centre based in the Department of Psychiatry, Ninewells Hospitals, Dundee and Medical School, Dundee.
University of Glasgow Centre for Drug Misuse Research - research on various aspects of problem drug use in Scotland.
Scottish Addiction Studies, University of Stirling - a teaching, information and research capacity within the Department of Applied Social Science on problem drug and alcohol issues. Incorporating EWODOR, the European Working Group on Drugs Oriented Research
The Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme (BFDPP) - An initiative dedicated to providing a rigorous, independent review of global drug policy. A partnership between the Beckley Foundation and DrugScope, its aim is to develop and distribute evidence and analysis to inform the international debate in this sensitive area.
Drug-misuse-research discussion forum - A discussion forum and information source.
Cocaine Anonymous Scotland - contains information on meetings; stories of recovering users; a self-test for drug problems; information about its helpline; a downloadable poster and links to other sites.
Cocaine Anonymous UKNarcotics Anonymous (Scotland)
Cannabis Help - Website which aims to enable users to cut down or stop using cannabis
Council for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction (CITA) - a Liverpool-based information and self-help group - including telephone helpline - to help patients and their families to cope with addiction to benzodiazapines and withdrawal from these drugs.
SMART Recovery UK - SMART supports individuals who want to abstain from any type of addictive behaviour through a four-point programme using tools and techniques based on scientific evidence tel 01463 258837.
Addiction Education Scotland - is a network of providers of quality teaching and training in the addictions in Scotland.
Coca - an information, advice and training charity supporting drug professionals and organisations with issues relating to stimulant drugs such as crack cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and ecstasy.
Scottish Training on Drugs and Alcohol (STRADA) - aims to improve the skills of professional staff addressing drug and alcohol use throughout Scotland
Federation of Drug and Alcohol Professionals (FDAP) - the training section of FDAP'se web-portal for people working in the drugs and alcohol field.
The Centre for Alcohol and Drug Studies, University of Paisley - a teaching, research and consultancy organisation (click on Schools and Depts tab on homepage)
Scottish Addiction Studies - University of Stirling - a teaching, information and research capacity within the Department of Applied Social Science on problem drug and alcohol issues.
Alcohol Concern - works to reduce the incidence and costs of alcohol-related harm
Alcohol Focus Scotland - National voluntary organization for alcohol issues in Scotland.
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Scotland - the leading voluntary organisation in Scotland tackling tobacco use
Educari - information about volatile substances
Re-Solv - national charity solely dedicated to the prevention of volatile substance use
Solve It - Northamptonshire-based charity which provides education, training and awareness for young people, parents, professionals and the community and young people on volatile substance misuse
St George's Hospital Medical School - information about volatile substance use-related deaths
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