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Result of Membership Consultation on Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Bill

21 August 2006

NEARLY 80 members took part in the event held at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on 21 July.

There was general agreement for the principles contained within the Bill, especially for a wider range of services than currently available, including more prescribing options, employability services and childcare support, as well as more effective integration of services and issues around the lead department

However, there were significant doubts and concerns regarding the likelihood of successful implementation of the Bill, summarised as follows:

Significant additional resources would be required for treatment care and rehabilitation services
Delivering holistic care plans within the timeframe as services stand at present would be very difficult
Without effective monitoring the proposal could be implemented merely as a paper exercise with little change in current practice
Concerns were voiced that the focus of the Bill could result in too much focus being given to the assessment phase at the expense of interventions
There was general support for a wider range of services than currently available, including more prescribing options, employability services and childcare support
The Bill should be renamed to incorporate reference to Substance rather than Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation.

Click here to view/download a copy of a full details of the SDF membership responses to the Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Bill (Word document 204 KB). The responses also contain views from two SDF User Involvement Groups – a Glasgow group response which is contained within the main body of the text and a Lanarkshire group response.

Membership Consultation:

Personal possession and intent to supply controlled drugs

14 March 2006

Scottish Drugs Forum has forwarded its submission to the Home Office in connection with the above issue. Click here to view or download the document (Word Format 42kb).