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 […]
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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'
The Scottish Crime Board are consulting on changes to the way crimes and offences are presented - including changes to the classification of drug possession vs. supply.
DRNS is mapping current/planned Scottish research & audit on Drug-Related Deaths to describe the emerging evidence-base and inform the national response.
Catriona Matheson, DRNS Convenor and Professor of Substance Use, will chair Scotland's new Drugs Death Taskforce.