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News

• 10th Anniversary
• 10th Anniversary Celebrations
• A fresh approach to drug policy
• A Fresh Approach to Drugs
• A voice at the Scottish parliament
• Aberdeen Ladies talk at Aberdeen in Recovery event
• Allow families easier access to naloxone
• Cheaper to get drunk than go to the cinema say UK’s young people
• Declare 23 March 2013 as National Day of Recovery Celebration in Scotland.
• Drug related deaths in Scotland increasing
• Drug-related deaths down
• Ecstasy Warning !!!
• Evidence gathering on methadone
• Family members join in UK recovery walk
• Getting families access to naloxone
• Getting Our Priorities right
• Getting our priorities right
• Glasgow Hit Hardest in Scotland by Welfare Reform
• Global Drugs Survey
• Happy new year from Keith
• HMP Edinburgh Recovery Conversation Cafe
• Improvements needed to family support services
• Legal highs: read our factsheet
• Mexxy, Black Mamba and other ‘legal highs’ become Class B drugs
• Minister Attends SFAD Annual Conference
• More children in Scotland losing parents to drug deaths
• Naloxone prescription: new rules
• Nick Clegg calls for royal commission on drugs reform
• Our busy board
• Out of Focus: how families are affected by alcohol use, and how they look for help
• Recovery Walk Scotland 2013 postponed due to adverse weather conditions
• Remembering families on the road to recovery
• Road to recovery: monitoring progress
• Save Someone
• Scotland’s alcohol problem
• Scottish Families Affected by Drugs has a new CEO
• Scottish Families Produces best practice guide.
• Scottish politicians agree that families affected by drugs misuse need support
• SFAD Best Practice Toolkit
• SFAD Masterclass
• Support for drug-related bereavement
• Survey shows importance of family support groups
• Talking about family recovery
• The Guardian publishes a piece on the Commons home affairs select committee report on drug policy
• The scale of Scotland’s drug problem
• The War on Drugs
• Third Sector Early Intervention Fund Award
• Too few families receiving naloxone kits
• Unite to tackle stigma and end isolation
• We are moving office
• We comment on new statistics showing the level of Scotland’s drug problem

Family support groups

• Alternatives Bellsmyre Family Support Group
• Alternatives Family Support Group
• Angus Carers Centre
• Barnardo’s Family Matters
• Bereavement Support Group
• Bishopbriggs Family Support Group
• Buckie Family Support Group
• CASTAD (Care & Support for those Affected by Drugs)
• Clackmannanshire Kinship Carers
• Coatbridge Family Support Group
• Deveron Family Support Group
• DRC (Dumbarton Road Corridor) Addiction family support group
• Drugs Action
• EPICS (Encouraging Positive Involvement Carers Support)
• Families Anonymous Aberdeen
• Families Anonymous Anderston
• Families Anonymous Partick
• Families Anonymous, Edinburgh
• Families Anonymous, Fraserburgh
• Families Anonymous, Inverness
• FASS (Family Addiction Support Service)
• Fraserburgh Parents Addiction Support Group
• Freagarrach Stirling Alcohol & Drug Service
• Garioch Family Support Group
• Grandparents as Parents Project ( GAPP )
• Grandparents as Parents Project [GAPP]
• HOPE
• Inverclyde Family Response Service
• Jericho Family Support Group
• KADAS (Kintyre Alcohol & Drugs Advisory Service)
• Kinship 4 Kids
• Kinship Carers Support Group
• Kirkintilloch Family Support Group
• Kith ‘n’ Kin
• Lanarkshire Kinship Carers Group
• LEAP (Lothian & Edinburgh Abstinence Programme)
• MELD (Mid & East Lothian Drugs)
• Prestonpans Family Support Group
• Quarriers Carer Support Service
• QUEST Family Support Group
• Renfrewshire Family Support Group
• Shetland Family Support Group
• Stirling Family Support Services
• Stonehouse Family Support Group
• TACT (Talking Across Colours Together)
• The Croft (Barlinnie Visitors Centre)
• The First Base Agency
• The Lighthouse Foundation
• Three Towns Family Support Group
• Touched by Suicide Scotland
• VOCAL Family Support Addictions
• VOCAL Family Support Addictions, South Edinburgh
• VOCAL Midlothian
• West Glasgow Grandparent Support Group
• West Lothian Family Support Group

Family support services

• Action on Depression, Edinburgh
• Action on Depression, Glasgow Group
• Addiction Recovery Centre
• Addictions Counselling Inverness
• Alcohol & Addictions Counselling Service
• Alcohol & Drugs Support Castle Douglas
• Alcohol & Drugs Support, Dumfries
• Alcohol & Drugs Support, Wigtownshire
• Angus Carers Centre
• Beautiful Minds
• Bridge Project Uist
• Carers Support
• Children & Families Drug & Alcohol Project
• Community Alcohol & Drugs Service Shetland (CADSS)
• Community Help and Advice Initiative (CHAI)
• Connecting Carers
• Counselling and Family Mediation Western Isles
• Cowal Council on Alcohol & Drugs
• Crossreach Lifestyle Centre
• DASH (Depression & Anxiety Support & Help), Camelon
• DASH (Depression & Anxiety Support & Help), Falkirk
• Drug & Alcohol Project Ltd. (DAPL) Kirkaldy
• Drug & Alcohol Project Ltd. (DAPL), Leven
• Drugs Action
• Dundee Carers Centre
• East Lothian Young Carers
• Encompass Counselling & Support Bute
• Encompass Counselling & Support Islay & Jura
• Encompass Counselling & Support Mid-Argyll
• Encompass Counselling & Support Oban
• Families First
• Family, Friends & Significant Others Support Service
• FASS (Family Addiction Support Service)
• Forth Valley Family Support Service [Falkirk]
• Forth Valley Family Support Service [Stirling]
• Grampian Family Support Forum
• HEAR (Help, empathy, advice and reassurance)
• Helensburgh & Lommond Carers Project
• Highland Carers Project
• Incite
• Kindred Spirits
• Lochaber Council on Alcohol
• LOST (Lee O’Brien Solvent Trust)
• Meridian North Lanarkshire
• Meridian South Lanarkshire
• Moray Council on Addiction (MCA)
• North Ayrshire Addiction Services -Saltcoats
• North Edinburgh Drug Advice Centre (NEDAC)
• North Lanarkshire Carers Together
• Orkney Alcohol Counselling & Advisory Service (OACAS)
• Pilton Counselling Service
• Quarriers Carer Support Service
• RCA Trust
• Renfrewshire Drugs Service Family Support
• Shetland Bereavement Support Service
• Simpson House Counselling
• Skye & Lochalsh Council on Alcohol
• South East Recovery Hub
• Stirling Family Support Services
• The Caladh Trust
• The Lighthouse Foundation
• The Princess Royal Trust Borders Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust Carers Centre Cumnock
• The Princess Royal Trust Carers Centre Kilmarnock
• The Princess Royal Trust Carers of West Dunbartonshire
• The Princess Royal Trust Carers of West Lothian
• The Princess Royal Trust Dumfries & Galloway Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust East Renfrewshire Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust Falkirk & Clackmannanshire Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust Fife Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust for Carers East Lothian
• The Princess Royal Trust Glasgow East End Community Carers
• The Princess Royal Trust Glasgow South East Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust Greater Pollok Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust Inverclyde Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust Lanarkshire Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust Midlothian Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust North Argyll Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust North Ayrshire Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust Orkney Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust Perth & Kinross Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust Renfrewshire Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust South Ayrshire Carers Centre
• The Princess Royal Trust Stirling Carers Centre
• Touched by Suicide Scotland, Kilmarnock
• Touched by Suicide Scotland, Lothian
• VOCAL Carers Centre
• VSA Carers Centre, Aberdeen
• VSA Carers Centre, Aberdeenshire

Local treatment contacts

• Aberdeen Integrated Drug Service
• Addiction Recovery Centre
• Angus Alcohol, Drug & Blood Borne Virus (BBV) Service
• Argyll & Bute Addiction Team (ABAT)
• Borders Addiction Service
• Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Social Work
• Community Alcohol & Drugs Services Shetland (CADSS)
• Community Substance Misuse Team - Banchory
• Community Substance Misuse Team - Banff
• Community Substance Misuse Team - Ellon
• Community Substance Misuse Team - Fraserburgh
• Community Substance Misuse Team - Huntly
• Community Substance Misuse Team - Inverurie
• Community Substance Misuse Team - Peterhead
• Community Substance Misuse Team - Portlethen
• D&G Alcohol and Drugs Service, Dumfries
• D&G Alcohol and Drugs Service, Newton Stewart
• Dundee Drug, Alcohol & BBV Social Work Team
• East Ayrshire Community Addiction Team
• East Dunbartonshire Community Addiction Team
• East Lothian Substance Misuse Service
• East Renfrewshire Community Addiction Team
• Edinburgh Social Care Direct
• Edinburgh South East Recovery Hub
• Fife Social Work Office
• Glasgow East Community Addiction Team
• Glasgow Greater Pollok Community Addiction Team  
• Glasgow Homeless Addiction Team
• Glasgow North Community Addiction Team 1
• Glasgow North Community Addiction Team 2
• Glasgow North East Community Addiction Team
• Glasgow South Community Addiction Team
• Glasgow South East Community Addiction Team
• Glasgow South West Addiction Service
• Glasgow West Community Addiction Team 
• Inverclyde Integrated Drugs Service
• Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey Social Work Office
• Midlothian Substance Misuse Service
• North Edinburgh Drug Advice centre (NEDAC)
• North Lanarkshire Integrated Addiction Service - Airdrie
• North Lanarkshire Integrated Addiction Service - Bellshill
• North Lanarkshire Integrated Addiction Service - Coatbridge
• North Lanarkshire Integrated Addiction Service - Cumbernauld
• North Lanarkshire Integrated Addiction Service -Wishaw
• OASIS (Oban Addiction Support & Information Service)
• Orkney Substance Misuse Team
• Perth & Kinross Drug & Alcohol Team
• Renfrewshire Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Renfrewshire Drugs Service
• Ross, Skye and Lochaber Social Work Office
• Signpost Forth Valley
• South Ayrshire Community Addiction Team
• South Lanarkshire Community Addiction Team
• Studio8 Access & Assessment Point
• West Dunbartonshire Community Addiction Team
• West Fife Community Drugs Team
• West Lothian Drug & Alcohol Service (WLDAS)

Alcohol & drug partnerships

• Aberdeen City Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Aberdeenshire Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Angus Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Argyll & Bute Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Dumfries & Galloway Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Dundee Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• East Ayrshire Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• East Dunbartonshire Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• East Renfrewshire Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Edinburgh Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Fife Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Forth Valley Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Glasgow City Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Highland Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Inverclyde Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Lanarkshire Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Midlothian and East Lothian Drug and Alcohol Partnership
• Moray Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• North Ayrshire Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Orkney Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Perth & Kinross Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Scottish Borders Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Shetland Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• South Ayrshire Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• West Dunbartonshire Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• West Lothian Tobacco, Alcohol & Drug Partnership
• Western Isles Alcohol & Drug Partnership