SDF has published its commentary on the draft Right To Addiction Recovery Bill published by the Scottish Parliament a week ago.

The commentary is intended to promote discussion of the draft Bill and the implications of the proposals it contains.

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We are hiring a Development Officer - Living Experience!

The focus of the role is to recruit, train, support & sustain local and regional networks of people with current living experience of problem drug use/being in treatment.

Deadline: 2 June

Apply at buff.ly/3kU9H3P

At an Scottish Drugs Forum and Scottish Families National Support Services event offering MSPs training in administering life-saving naloxone, Drugs and Alcohol Policy Minister Christina McKelvie highlighted that training is also available to the general public.

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On #NursesDay we thank nursing colleagues for their joint work with us and for all that nurses do to improve services and lives

It is challenging and rewarding work – let’s look after those who care

Read how at our burnout report - buff.ly/3wudqxt

Lots of discussion recently about drug trends in Scotland.
This conference will be hugely beneficial for anyone working in/involved in this area.
Look forward to seeing you there

Great to chat with Kirsten Horsburgh today at the Parliament's Naloxone awareness event. Fab to see so many MSPs and staff being trained up by Daryl McLeister | Family Inclusive Practice SFAD on how to use this life saving intervention 🙌

What is #harmreduction ?

Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to minimise the negative health, social and legal impacts associated with drug use, drug policies and drug laws. #HarmReductionDay

🎉 JOBS OF THE WEEK 🎉

This weeks jobs are within the Safer Drug Consumption Facility - the first of it's kind in the UK!

The roles are a mix of health or social work roles and you can find all roles, more information on them and how to apply 👉 ow.ly/2UaU50RyeT6

Services are reporting an increase of injecting drug use-related wounds & infection.

SDF have created resources to give people working in services confidence to discuss wounds, infections and injecting technique & offer harm reduction advice.

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Many thanks to the Cross-Committee meeting members for having me along today representing Scottish Drugs Forum. You can view the session here if you missed it - scottishparliament.tv/meeting/crimin…

Join us from 10:00 this morning with Health, Social Care and Sport Committee and Social Justice and Social Security Committee when we’ll scrutinise measures to tackle Scotland’s drug deaths and drug harm. We’ll hear from Scottish Drugs Forum Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs NHS Tayside followed by Christina McKelvie and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Watch live here: ow.ly/Vfhf50Rpbua

Tonight Andrew McAuley delivered an absolutely fantastic professorial lecture Glasgow Caledonian University detailing his career, achievements and contributions to research in the area of injecting drug use. Brilliant work.

The risks of injecting drugs are escalating thanks to the arrival of synthetic opioids in Scotland - found in 18 deaths in the last 6 months of the latest data.

So for many Glasgow's safer injecting site – due to open in 'late summer' is long overdue. But will it be enough?

Great podcast on drug user organising with me & Wez from Scottish Drugs Forum. We explore harm reduction and recovery, look at practical issues like payments for peers, and I get to celebrate drug user activism from Afghanistan to Philippines to Nigeria. #PeerWorks

This has been a bit of a labour of love… but excited to publish this day-in-the-life podcast about Toronto’s Moss Park Consumption and Treatment Service next week.

We've started recruiting for the Safer Drug Consumption Facility

Want to find out more about the roles? We're holding recruitment sessions (in person & online) on 1 May 2024 where service leads will answer your questions.

Email [email protected] to book a place

Lovely to celebrate 20 years of this fantastic project with another inspiring group of trainee graduates.
And delighted to re-launch the project under the new name of SDF’s National Traineeship 🤩
Looking forward to welcoming this year’s trainees very soon!

Congratulations to all our AWTP/RWTP trainees graduating today!

We are proud of all your dedication, resilience and determination over the last 9 months.

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You can now register for the N8 conference on drug policing in Manchester on 2nd July. registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend/r…

Very sad to hear this news. Naomi Burke-Shyne is an inspiring leader, showing compassion, strength, resilience and determination. She has been an incredible support to me moving in to the CEO role with Scottish Drugs Forum and will be hugely missed. Wishing her all the best for the future ❤