Families Campaign for Change

@fcfcscotland.bsky.social beautifully articulating the challenges faced by families, and giving a heartfelt call for action to provide compassionate care for families of loved ones who use drugs.

"Team Scotland" have had a superb week at the Addiction and the Family International Network in Québec- sharing our work, launching campaigns and learning from many others across the world @ceosfad.bsky.social @fcfcscotland.bsky.social

Thank you to @AFINetwork Conference for supporting Families Campaign for Change in our Call for Action: An 18th UN Sustainable Goal- Compassionate Drug Reform
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Imspiring workshop ‘Harm Reduction through the Family Lens’ presented by Rachel Chernick, PhD, LCSW & Deborah Drache
‘Harm Reduction is a humanistic and compassionate approach’
AFINet Conference Quebec 2025
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🌟 Join Us Tomorrow for our Inverclyde Family Support Group! 🌟

Are you affected by someone else’s alcohol or drug use? This is a safe, weekly drop-in support group for anyone 16+.

👉 No need to book, just come along!
🕙 Fridays, 10am - 12pm
📍 Port Glasgow, Salvation Army Church

Contacts on Flyer!

We will be encouraging more families to visit- stigma will change if we do!
#CompassionateDrugReform in action

How can we help you?
What do you need today?

FCFC visited The Thistle Safe Consumption Facility-rooted in compassion, kindness and dignity. Every community deserves access to services like this — we hope to see variations across all areas of Scotland.

We’ll be sharing insights from our learning journey to Dublin, including what we learned about Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly from Senator Lynn Ruane—and our plan to push for a Citizens’ Assembly in Scotland. #AFINet2025
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Families Campaign for Change are excited to announce that we have successfully submitted our abstracts and will be presenting at the AFinet Conference in Quebec!

Nitazenes have been found in heroin & benzodiazepines supplied in Scotland and may be present in other drugs including cocaine. Nitazenes are potent drugs and can cause overdose and death on their own or in combination with other drugs.

View the full suite of resources here: buff.ly/3Q65Lvw

Please do join us next week if you're in Stirling or St Ninians!

They also heard this evidence 6 years ago in 2019….

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Inside the safe consumption room tasked with helping to drive down drug deaths Team behind UK first centre aim to save lives and improve public health

Inside Glasgow’s Safer Drug Consumption Facility
@thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social

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#CompassionateDrugReform in action 👏👏👏

Safer Drug Consumption Facility opens – at last  - Scottish Drugs Forum Statement from Kirsten Horsburgh CEO Scottish Drugs Forum. The UK’s first official drug consumption room, The Thistle, has…

The UK’s first official drug consumption room, The Thistle, has held a formal launch event at its Glasgow premises. Scottish Drugs Forum has long advocated for such services and welcomes this development.

Read our CEO Kirsten Horsburgh's statement here:
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UK's first safer consumption space opens its doors Glasgow's new safer drug consumption facility – The Thistle – will save lives and help marginalised people get support, managers insist.

"The official pilot on Hunter Street is by no means the panacea to Scotland’s drug crisis. To reach its full potential, the site must be expanded to 24-hour operation"
https://theferret.scot/uk-first-safer-consumption-space-opens-doors/

A place to heal: saving lives in Toronto's toxic drug crisis Ahead of the opening of Glasgow's safer drug consumption space opening, The Ferret visited Moss Park Toronto service. Listen to our podcast.

Glasgow's safer drug consumption room is opening on Monday – a UK first, aimed at saving lives

Want to know how services like this can work? Listen to my story of heartbreak and hope from Toronto's Moss Park Consumption and Treatment Service - A place to heal. theferret.scot/heal-saving-...

Drug consumption room statement of prosecution policy | COPFS drugs, prosecution, policy, statement, Lord Advocate, LAGs

Ahead of Monday’s opening of the Safer Drug Consumption Facility in Glasgow, I can’t express how incredible it feels to see this coming together.

www.copfs.gov.uk/publications...

First medically supervised injection facility to open Ireland's first medically supervised injection facility is due to open its doors this month at Merchant Quay Ireland's Riverbank centre in Dublin city centre.

Well done Ireland 👏👏👏#CompassionateDrugReform in action.
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🔴 NEW: Dublin's Rialto Drug Team is transforming lives through a family-centered approach to addiction support. Could Scotland follow their lead? Read on to find out: https://theferret.scot/drug-crisis-dublin-rialto-families-approach/

YouTube video by ScottishDrugsForum SDF #InnovativePractice2024 Families Campaign For Change 'Learning Journey Rialto Drug Team Dublin’

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Families on the front line: How a pioneering drug service helps communities heal Dublin’s Rialto Drug Team set a new standard with family-focused addiction support. Now, Scottish campaigners aim to adopt this model amid their own crisis.

Thank you Karin Goodwin for capturing our inspiring and informative week with RCDT Dublin , integrated and compassionate services in action.
#CompassionateDrugReformhttps://theferret.scot/drug-crisis-dublin

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Inspiring and informative week with Rialto Community Drug Team
Dublin , integrated and compassionate services in action