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Scottish Drugs Forum
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Second Scots NHS board considers prescribing heroin as drug treatment
A second Scottish NHS health board is considering offering heroin on prescription to drug users following an evaluation of a
Concerns raised over record number of women’s drug deaths
A record number of women died drug related deaths in 2021, according to new figures. The annual statistics, published by
Calls for Dundee women to be offered support without pregnancy ‘pause’ conditions
Critics of a controversial project which works with vulnerable mothers in Dundee have called for programme rules – insisting women who
Picking up the pieces: families call for out-of-hours addiction support
As she sat down to Christmas dinner Sandra Holmes – who set up an addiction family support group due to her
In pictures: Glasgow’s drugs crisis in the time of coronavirus
“The reality is that the HIV outbreak and drug-related deaths haven’t gone away just because we have declared a
Calls to help drug users access services in Covid-19 crisis
Calls are growing for people with drug addictions to get urgent access to life-saving treatment and prescriptions to help them
Illegal injection van ‘will prevent hundreds of drug deaths’
“There is no time to waste”, a leading Canadian drug activist has told Scots planning to set up supervised injection
Scottish drug activists urged to break law to save lives
A leading Canadian drug activist has urged Scots to engage in widespread civil disobedience and set up unsanctioned safe injection
‘Alarming’ rise in Glasgow homeless deaths linked to street valium
About 20 homeless people in Glasgow have died in the last six weeks, The Ferret has learned. The spate of
Urgent call for drug death prevention strategy to address Scottish crisis
Campaigners have called for a new prevention strategy to stop unnecessary suffering from drug deaths after new figures revealed that