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Road to recovery: monitoring progress
How is Scotland doing in achieving the aims set out in ‘The Road to Recovery’, the Scottish Government’s strategy to tackle drugs misuse in Scotland? This critical question is being looked at by the Drug Strategy Delivery Commission (DSDC), who published its first report last month. The DSDC exists to scrutinise the effectiveness of the [...]
Annual report now online
Our latest annual report, for the financial year 2010 – 2011, is now available on our website. Our report highlights the scale of Scotland’s drug problem. For example there are more than 60,000 known problem drug users in Scotland, with more than 10,000 new drug users in 2011. And when you consider that for every [...]
Support for drug-related bereavement
A new survey is looking at how service providers working with families following a drug-related death can provide the best possible support. If you have been affected by a drug-related death, could you take part in the survey to help ensure appropriate services are available in the future? Improved services The National Forum on Drug-Related [...]
Conference fully booked
Our annual conference has proved extremely popular and we are now fully booked. This is great news as it means that as many family members as possible will have the opportunity to meet one another, hear our speakers and learn from the workshops. We’re looking forward to meeting all those who have booked a place [...]
Drug-related deaths down
Clare Beck, our Chief Executive, responds to the latest Scottish drug death statistics. Scottish Families Affected by Drugs tentatively welcomed the news released earlier in the month that drug related deaths in Scotland fell by 11per cent in 2010 to 485. Obviously, an overall reduction is moving in the right direction, but the numbers are [...]
Conference workshops confirmed
From naloxone training to hand massage, there is a workshop for everyone at our annual conference. Our annual conference takes place on Saturday 1 October in Dundee, at the Apex City Quay hotel.Places are filling up fast so book now to avoid dissapointment. Workshops Workshops topics for our conference on Saturday 1 October have been [...]
Book now for conference early bird prices
Early bird tickets for our annual conference and AGM are only £50, but must be booked by Monday 15th August. After this date the cost of a ticket goes up to £75. To take account of the summer holiday season, we’ve extended this deadline from the end of July to August 15th. Our 2011 conference [...]
Remembering families on the road to recovery
We are looking forward to working with Roseanna Cunningham MSP as we continue to deliver the Scottish Government’s Road to Recovery agenda. Ms Cunningham is the Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs and will be the keynote speaker at our annual conference. She replaces Fergus Ewing MSP, who is now Minister for Energy, Enterprise [...]
New board members wanted
We are looking for dynamic individuals who care about families affected by drugs misuse to join our board. Our board meets around six times a year and makes all the major decisions about the organisation’s aims, objectives, staffing and budgeting and drives the long-term development of our organisation and our work. We are particularly looking [...]
Getting families access to naloxone
Scottish Families Affected by Drugs welcomes the news that naloxone can now legally be prescribed to staff who work with people at high risk of opiate overdose. Family representation We welcome the news, but believe that families who have a relative who is at risk of opitae overdose should also be able to be prescribed [...]
