@steelewez.bsky.social
Naloxone pusher & harm reductionist at @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social#StopTheDeaths Pushing for policy change to improve outcomes for people who use drugs. Catdad and fishing (rarely catching 😆) Positive vibes only!
Coming off this platform, more active here.
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Dinnae use alone if you can avoid it, test ya drugs if possible and check ya pals.
Never leave home without keys, phone & naloxone
MORE - Drug checking
Faster MAT with more options of treatment
Drug consumption spaces in temp accommodation
Increase detox and rehab capacity offering more models than currently available.
Increasing harms from contaminated drug supply. Worrying times.
publichealthscotland.scot/publications...
Great day in Edinburgh @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social hosting a steering group for peer naloxone with Simon Community Scotland and CGL - peers have themselves reversed Overdose since being trained how to #StopTheDeaths and are providing training and naloxone kits to people at risk.
16.07.2025 11:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Busy 2 days @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social with project steering groups in 2 @scottishprisons.bsky.social sites. HMPs Shotts and Kilmarnock preparing for peer to peer naloxone supply. Sudden showers are no match for a sunny disposition! Thanks to both for supporting this work. #StopTheDeaths
15.07.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A big thank you to the Brittish Medical Association for the invitation to speak today.
We can reduce harms in secure environments!
@scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social
Very kind of you to say, I remember well physically shaking at Pathways those few years back 🤣. Hope you and yours are well!
09.07.2025 08:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Heading to the big smoke to speak about how multiple stays in prison informs my work on peer naloxone at @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social
Caffeine seems to be keeping the nerves at bay (for now at least!)
BMA healthcare in secure environments conference share.google/O4FT97M41Smf...
Happy supprt don't punish day
Nice people take drugs
Most folk don't develop problems
Supporting people towards improved wellbeing gets my vote!
Great day @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social co-piloting @Paula Duffy delivering naloxone training for trainers to 11 residents who can then train their peers to be supplied naloxone prior to liberation.
#StopTheDeaths
Lynn Raune highlighting how It's not easy to talk about the human rights if drug dealers - everyone wants somebody to blame.
Their aspiration is for love, care and family not violence and prison.
We need to look at the drivers, poverty, oppression and colonisation.
#ISSDP2025
Interesting pre www.issdp.org conference workshop day. A privilege to speak alongside this panel. We can and must do more to reduce harms for people who use drugs.
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Brilliant couple of days with @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social meeting up with the sharps team, some great folk doing great work!
@sacasrstir.bsky.social and @salvationarmyuk.bsky.social Supporting Harm Reduction through PeerSupport - the SHaRPS study.
Great team at Simon community thanks for inviting @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social to come and deliver naloxone training for trainers.
Best way to end a busy week #StopTheDeaths
Scottish Drugs Forum’s annual #StopTheDeaths conference returns with a two-day event focussed on reducing drug-related deaths and harms.
📅 Wednesday 27th & Thursday 28th August
📍Radisson Blu Hotel, Glasgow
Timed to mark International Overdose Awareness Day.
Book now: sdf.org.uk/get-involved...
I am looking forward to the day at eapcct.org with this legend @lynncouper.bsky.social chatting all things harm reduction @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social
29.05.2025 08:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great to be a part of CGL and Simon Community Scotland and @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social joining forces to reduce drug deaths with a collaborative peer naloxone group.
Emotional hearing peoples experiences today, peers are ideally placed to deliver harm reduction interventions!
#StopTheDeaths
sdf.org.uk/reflections-...
"We must also be clear that our role is not to push people toward specific outcomes, whether that’s abstinence, treatment, or any particular definition of recovery."
I have definitely found my tribe @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social
When you try talking to teddy before his morning coffee......
16.05.2025 05:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great day with 13 peers from 6 areas and 5 organisations @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social Thanks to @mariebethk.bsky.social for co-hosting. Gutted @emir-t.bsky.social couldn't join but someone gotta keep the momentum going in the GGC Prisons, Anyone would think ya were on a mission to #StopTheDeaths
15.05.2025 16:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stoked to be supporting a peer to peer collaboration on home turf.
Big shout to an OG of the P2P game Dave Sheriff and the one and only Fra Sportellino
We CAN prevent drug deaths
We just need to know how
#StopTheDeaths
I can think of worse ways to start ya day. Annual leave you glorious thing you!
09.05.2025 08:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great day at Dumbarton rock recovery cafe delivering a naloxone session.
@scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social
#stopthedeaths
26.04.2025 15:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This bird is boss!
24.04.2025 17:46 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great initial meeting with HMP Kilmarnock today. @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social & @scottishprisons.bsky.social @ NHS working together expanding peer to peer naloxone for people due to be liberated to another site. Some really positive chat today, thanks to all who attended.
#Stopthedeaths
peers reach people and places conventional routes do not!
people with experience of drug use are best placed to deliver harm reduction knowledge in prison settings.
12.04.2025 12:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's was great to get in and connect with the 2 groups of naloxone peer champions @scottishprisons.bsky.social in HMP Dumfries. Great chat about how the model could be improved to #StopTheDeaths
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