On the 28th November 2018 the DRNS was pleased to hold our first annual conference, a fully sold-out event that attracted 120 delegates including academic and peer researchers, post-graduate students, early career researchers, health and care providers, third sector agencies and people with lived and living experience of drug use. […]
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We are delighted to announce that Dr Catriona Matheson has been appointed Professor of Substance Use at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling. Professor Matheson is recognised as a significant contributor to the field of substance use research in Scotland through her work as an independent drugs researcher, […]
On 28/11/2018 the Scottish Government published Rights, Respect and Recovery, a new, combined drug and alcohol strategy that takes a public health approach to preventing and reducing alcohol and drug use, harm and related deaths. In this document, the Scottish Government state: “We recognise the importance of the role evidence plays in […]