Annual Conference 2025 – Parallel Sessions

Parallel Sessions

Parental and Gender Perspectives on Substance Use and Recovery chaired by James Mitchell

Louise Marryat
Preschool Developmental Outcomes of Children Exposed to Opioids in Pregnancy: Results from Scottish Administrative Data as part of the Opioid in Pregnancy Study

Shona Shinwell
An Exploration of Long-Term Health Outcomes for Women with Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review

Josh Dumbrell
Realist Review of Nature-Based Interventions for Men: Understanding Contexts, Mechanisms, and Outcomes for Effective Treatment and Recovery

Miriam Boeri
Drug Use and Mothering: Comparing UK and US Policy, Practice, and Lived Experiences

Vicky Mitchell
Maternal Substance Use and Breastfeeding of Infants Placed in Care

Treatment and Recovery chaired by Anna Ross

Kathryn Young
Offering Support in the Small Things: Helping People Feel They Matter

Laura Roe
Catastrophe: Experiences of Acute and Chronic Crises in Poly-drug Use

Jake Hawthorne
“A very Different type of Recovery”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Psychedelic Use in Recovery from Addiction

Katy MacLeod
Preventing Burnout in Volunteers and the LLE Drug and Alcohol Workforce

Sam Steele
“We See You is a Lifeline for me”’: Figure 8 Evaluation of the We See You Project

People Experiencing Incarceration or Homelessness chaired by Lisa Scholin

Victoria Marland
Changing Trends in Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonist (SCRA) use in Scottish Prisons: Detection, Prevalence and Modes of use

Catriona Connell
Relational Influences on Help-Seeking for Substance Use Among Justice Involved People in Scotland

Dave Griffiths
Perceived Support for Help-Seeking Amongst the Peers of Justice-Involved Substance Users in Scotland

Jen Boyd
Clustering of Substance Use Behaviours in Those Experiencing Homelessness in Scotland and England and the Association with Socio-Demographics, Including Geographic Location

Richard Kjellgren
Post-Imprisonment Substance Use Service Contacts by People Released from Scottish Prisons: Preliminary Findings from a Retrospective Cohort Study (RELEASE)

Forensic Science, Drug-Related Deaths, and Harm Reduction chaired by Jonathan Brett

Riyadh Alghamdi
Evaluation of Xylazine Immunoassay Test Strips for the Rapid In-Situ Detection of Xylazine: Assessment of Limit of Detection and Selectivity

Natalia Dygas
Analysing the Impact of Gabapentinoid Reclassification on Gabapentin and Pregabalin Related Deaths in the UK

Cassandra Baiano
Suicide as a Drug-related Harm: Evidence from 2016-2023 Post-Mortem Analyses in NHS Tayside

Lorna Nisbet
Evaluation of Nitazene Immunoassay Test Strips for Rapid In-Situ Detection of Nitazene and Nitazene Analogs as a Harm Reduction Tool

Graeme Callander
Redesigning our Community Hub to Deliver Focused Harm Reduction