📣 Call for abstracts closing in 1 week!
Deadline: 7 March 2026
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✨ Annual Conference 2026: Developments in Harm Reduction
📅 4 June 2026
📍 Glasgow Caledonian University
🗣️ keynotes from Dr Chelsea Shover & Prof Catherine Comiskey
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Funding Opportunity: Advancing Innovation in Drug & Alcohol Addiction Healthcare
Innovate UK through the Office for Life Sciences Addiction Healthcare Goals programme with up to £20m available across two competitions
Closing: 6 May 2026 (11:00am UK time)
Learn more: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
New fully funded PhD based at @dundee.ac.uk , supervised by Dr Harry Hebert, Prof Lesley Colvin and myself, to investigate Opioid, Gabapentinoid and Antidepressant co‑prescribing. Apply here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... or get in touch if you would like to find out more!
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New paper on "Impact of Scotland's first Virtual Consumption app". Thanks @catrionamath.bsky.social @hadidf.bsky.social for support and guidance. Thanks @sheffielduni.bsky.social for Open Access publishing. @profalexstevens.bsky.social for continuing supervision and support.
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🚨 Two Fully Funded PhD Opportunities – @glasgow.ac.uk @uofgshw.bsky.social 🚨
We’re recruiting for two PhD studentships exploring child and adolescent outcomes following prenatal opioid exposure, working with leading researchers and unique UK-wide administrative datasets 1/4
📣 2 WEEKS AWAY
Reducing Overdose and Drug Deaths in People Facing Homelessness and Other Disadvantages
👥 in collaboration with the Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health
📅 4 March 2026
🕘 11:00 - 12:00
📍 Online via Teams
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📣 NEW EVENT✨
Reducing Overdose and Drug Deaths in People Facing Homelessness and Other Disadvantages
👥 in collaboration with the Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health
📅 4 March 2026
🕘 11:00 - 12:00
📍 Online via Teams
Registration: buff.ly/ZKE44Ni
✨ Click the link below to watch the recording of the webinar: Benzodiazepines/Z-drugs and Opioid Co-use: Research and Recommendations
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📣 NEW BLOG POST
✨ Helping people to live and survive co-use of benzodiazepines/z-drugs and opioids: the importance of asking how and why people co-use
👥 by Gabriele Vojt, Joanna Kesten, Jennifer Scott, Hannah Family, on behalf of the Benzo Opioid study team
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✨ Annual Conference 2026: Developments in Harm Reduction
📅 4th June 2026
📍 Glasgow Caledonian University
🗣️ with keynotes from Dr Chelsea Shover & Prof Catherine Comiskey
🎟️ REGISTRATION: buff.ly/87E4KPf
📣 Call for abstracts NOW OPEN, full details here: buff.ly/bZYg5PA
Deadline: 7th March 2026
📢 Call for Applications: Evidence Briefing 📢
We’re commissioning an evidence briefing on the topic of ketamine.
📅 Deadline: 5 pm on 6th February 2026
💰 Funding: Up to £1,000
📩 Send your proposal to admin@drns.ac.uk
More details and proposal form ⬇️
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Our new paper on Digital Harm Reduction and "Here4U Scotland app" from lead author @hadidf.bsky.social. Always a privilege to work and learn from @hadidf.bsky.social and @catrionamath.bsky.social 🙏. Thanks to @profalexstevens.bsky.social for ongoing PhD support 🙏
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📢 Call for Applications: Evidence Briefing 📢
We’re commissioning an evidence briefing on the topic of ketamine.
📅 Deadline: 5 pm on 6th February 2026
💰 Funding: Up to £1,000
📩 Send your proposal to admin@drns.ac.uk
More details and proposal form ⬇️
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The SSA is now accepting applications for full-time PhD studentships. Funding will include a stipend (living allowance), tuition fees, and research and training costs. Find out how to apply: tinyurl.com/y3n5dvk2
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📢✨️ Dream postdoc job alert:
Research Associate – Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE).
Full-time, 5 year fixed-term job working with @fergusmcneill.bsky.social at University of Glasgow and researchers in the Netherlands and Norway.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP716/r...
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Applications are being invited by @nrsprimarycare.bsky.social for its Researcher Development Fellowship, supporting GPs to build a clinical academic career.
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✨ One week to go 📣
Benzodiazepines/Z-drugs and Opioid Co-use: Research and Recommendations Webinar
-in collaboration with University of Bristol and University of Bath
📅 28 November 2025
🕘 11:00 AM
📍 Online via Teams
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📣 Introducing new funding schemes from the SSA and Office for Life Sciences tinyurl.com/mrxwrh8k | Applications for PhD studentships and fellowships open on 3 November
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Abstract submissions are open for Scotland's 2026 Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) event.
Presentation and poster abstracts, as well as workshop proposals, are being accepted until Friday 31 October.
Submit now 🔗 https://bit.ly/42dY5Of
RELEASE protocol paper is out ijpds.org/article/view...
This paper, led by @kjellgren.bsky.social describes how we created the RELEASE dataset, what is in it, and plans for analysis
Results coming soon 1/3
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Peer Mentoring Evaluation: A report on final research findings - Evaluation findings from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) test of Peer Mentoring for individuals with a substance dependency -
www.gov.uk/government/p...
📣 New webinar!✨
Join us for "Benzodiazepines/Z-drugs and Opioid Co-use: Research and Recommendations" with the University of Bristol and University of Bath
📅 28 November 2025
🕘 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
📍 Online via Teams
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📣 Street Drugs Discussions: Women and Drugs
✨ Drug Science is holding a webinar on 'Women and Drugs' on Friday 24 October 2025 to discuss women's drug use and current gaps in research
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Applications are now open for the next intake of Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government Clinical Academic Fellowships.
Find out more about the scheme, and apply by midday on Wednesday 19 November 🔗 https://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/clinical-academic-fellowship-now-open-for-applications/
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We're recruiting for a new CEO!
You will be the driving force behind our mission to reduce alcohol harm and improve lives across Scotland and beyond.
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🍃 Green threads - Weaving stories of nature and recovery ✨
New film from Salvation Army Centre for Addiction Services and Research shares the success stories of people who have used nature in their recovery from substance use. Project led by University of Stirling.
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Communications Officer
FT 37.5 hours
£34,043 – £38,824
Closes 17 October 2025
Are you passionate about bringing people, services & organisations together to create a mental health system powered by lived experience?
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