Over the coming year, Scottish Families is exploring the relationship between neurodiversity and substance use and its impact on families. Join our online conversation Café and share your experiences! To book your place, visit: trybooking.com/uk/DQDV 👈

"Diageo, maker of Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, and Guinness, has today announced an 18-month pilot partnership with the UK Men’s Sheds Association, [which] supports men’s wellbeing by providing a network of social and creative community spaces." UK Men’s Sheds harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/community/diag…

Digital Lifelines Scotland & DRNS are hosting a webinar to discuss "Digital as a Human Right: Does Digital Connection Improve Health Outcomes for People Who Use Drugs?" 📍Online 📅 8 August 2024 🕙10:00 - 12:00 Speakers announced soon! Sign up: eventbrite.com/e/digital-as-a…

Latest NESI report now available 👇 Everything you wanted to know about injecting drug use in Scotland and more! Massive thanks to over 2,000 PWID who took part and all the services for hosting us. Kudos to Dr Norah Palmateer for managing from start to finish, it's never easy😅

We're working with the UK Government’s Office for Life Sciences and James Lind Alliance to ask you to help decide what research is needed in future to shape healthcare for people with experience of addictions, their families and friends. Please have your say ow.ly/Ue3H50T1gpO

Another set of awful drug-death stats for Scotland from NatRecordsScot - as some of us suggested last year, a one-year drop was nothing to celebrate and certainly no evidence we had turned a corner. A short THREAD on some key findings from the data...

Lighting a candle for those we have lost, and thinking about so many family and friends left behind ...

Commentary from our Andrew McAuley

Our ⁦Dr Norah Palmateer⁩ explains The Needle Exchange Surveillance Initiative (NESI): Everything you ever wanted to know about NESI (but were afraid to ask) - in a blog for @drns Drug Research Network Scotland drns.ac.uk/the-needle-exc…

My predictive powers were (sadly) on point. x.com/victimofmaths/…

1,277 people died in 2023 from causes solely attributable to alcohol, according to figures published today by NatRecordsScot We're calling for a radical step change in the Scottish Government response alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/news/news/ongo…

In depth look at reasons behind some of the heartbreaking statistics today. Worth a read, lots of insights from SHAAP chair Peter Rice too.

🚨 Funding opportunity 🚨 Our Early Career Researcher Development Fund is now open for applications! Grants of up to £25,000 are available for ECRs to lead co-produced vulnerability and policing projects. Deadline: 4pm GMT, Monday 13 January 2024 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/news/early-car…

"...whisky brands are very reliant on a small number of heavy, & increasingly ageing, consumers, to provide the majority of volume." "In the longer term we had to attract more younger drinkers – the heavy-using loyalists of tomorrow”. #AlcoholProblemDependent

SubstanceUse@gcu Professor Lesley McMillan FRSE Drugs Research Network Scotland Prof Tammi Walker Dr Sian Oram VAWG Research Network Prof Rachel Armitage ECR funding please share 👇

Following on from the disappointing omission of plans to consult further on #AlcoholMarketing, we eagerly await tomorrow's Ministerial Statement on #Alcohol and other #Drugs We need to see a comprehensive plan with clear timelines to address the ongoing #AlcoholEmergency

🗣️Ahead of today's Ministerial Statement for the National Mission to Reduce Deaths and Improve Lives of People Impacted by Drugs and Alcohol, Prof Ewan Forrest Ewan Forrest talks about the need for improved services to reduce alcohol harms 👇

📢Read our response to the Cabinet Secretary Neil Gray MSP Statement on #Alcohol and other #drugs ⬇️ alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/news/news/alco…

Fantastic session on the social determinants of LGBT+ health today, co-hosted with LGBT Health and Wellbeing. 👉 The group from organisations across Scotland looked at the findings from review, and discussed what actionable changes could be.