DRNS is delighted to announce that Dr Duncan Stewart has joined our Steering Committee. Duncan is a consultant addiction Psychiatrist currently working in NHS Lothian. He has worked in Psychiatry in Glasgow, Aberdeen, North Lanarkshire, Forth Valley and the Highlands of Scotland finally moving home to Edinburgh in 2014. He […]
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Michael Roy, Peer Navigator. Recognising a participant’s (because I am part of a research study) change in behaviour and also understanding their triggers has been the most important part of my overdose prevention work. If I can see a change in behaviour and mood it gives me the opportunity to […]
Josh Dumbrell, Peer Navigator. While still out performing, overdose was an inevitable aspect of my addiction. From day one, my using was characterised in the adage, “one is too many, and a thousand never enough”. Indeed, for many of us, our drug of (no) choice is simply ‘more’. I have […]
So the country is in the grip of public health crisis, people are dying from overdoses at an alarming rate, alarming even to the more advanced drug using population which is fairly accustomed to hearing someone else they knew has been found dead. There has been much talk of how […]
Focus group participants sought for a study seeking to reduce risk of overdose among people prescribed opioids for chronic non-cancer pain.
The Drugs Research Network for Scotland is delighted to present Opioids, pain, dependence and harms, an international symposium with Dr Peggy Compton and Dr Marty Cheatle (University of Pennsylvania) and Dr Richard Cooper (University of Sheffield). This event will be of interest to academics, practitioners, policy makers and technical experts […]
DRNS is proud to be hosting Scottish Recovery Consortium’s Rights in Recovery event at the University of Stirling on 22nd August. The rights of people who use drugs, and those in recovery, underpin the Scottish drugs strategy ‘Rights, Respect and Recovery’. In his Foreword to the strategy Joe FitzPatrick, MSP […]
Prof Bernie Pauly and Dr Bruce Wallace (Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research) delivered this interactive workshop in Dundee on 14th May 2019. The event was organised by Drugs Research Network for Scotland in partnership with Scottish Drugs Forum and Dundee City Council. Bernie and Bruce described the response to […]
Dr Emily Tweed, Clinical Lecturer in Public Health and Hon. Speciality Registrar at NHS GGC joins DRNS Steering Committee.
Statement from the Drugs Research Network in response to publication of the 2018 drug-related death statistics. Includes interview with Catriona Matheson, DRNS Convenor and Chair of the new Scottish Government 'Drugs Death Taskforce'