Kirsten Horsburgh

Scottish Drugs Forum Pays Tribute to Christina McKelvie, Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy - Scottish Drugs Forum Scottish Drugs Forum is extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Christina McKelvie, Minister for Drugs and…

Scottish Drugs Forum is extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Christina McKelvie, Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy.

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Really awful news. Thoughts with Christina’s family 💔

Read this 🧵. Understand the devastating impacts of policy being driven by disinformation and moral panic. This is not a game - people die from reactive and regressive policy.

Shutting down SCS/OPS, restricting access to safe supply, deprescribing and forced tapering, it all kills.

RAISED CONCERN AFTER RISE IN SUDDEN OVERDOSES IN PEOPLE USING HEROIN IN SCOTLAND - Scottish Drugs Forum To view and/or download the overdose alert resource – CLICK HERE There is concern about clusters of drug…

People have reported sudden collapse after injecting or smoking heroin, with a rapid onset of overdose. Further testing is underway to identify the specific drugs involved in these clusters.

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Scottish Drugs Forum’s annual #StopTheDeaths conference returns in 2025 with a two-day event dedicated to reducing drug-related deaths & harms

📅 27th & 28th August

📍Radisson Blu Glasgow

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

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Opening session with First Minister John Swinney

Today I’m attending the #scvogathering in Edinburgh

Productive discussions with members of the Labour Party and the Scottish Greens this week on all things Drugs Policy and Practice @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social

'Brave and bold action' is needed on drugs finds people's panel “Brave and bold action” is needed to urgently tackle Scotland’s drug deaths crisis, a people’s panel has found.

‘Brave and bold action is needed on drugs finds people’s panel’
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Rare opportunity to work with SDF on this award winning programme, supporting people with experience of substance use in to employment 🤩

The second of Scottish Drugs Forum’s Winter Webinar series 'Young People and Drugs - Early Interventions and Harm Prevention'

📅Wednesday 29 January
⏰13.00 – 14.15
📍Zoom

Click the link to find out more information and to register for the webinar: buff.ly/42fTtrY 💻

Safer Drug Consumption Facilities are a compassionate approach to drug use, prioritising public health, reducing harm, providing support and saving lives. Everyone deserves dignity and safety 💜

YouTube video by Glasgow City HSCP The Thistle - Safer Drug Consumption Room

Nice new video from colleagues in Glasgow for people who are considering using the Safer Drug Consumption Facility ‘The Thistle’, opening tomorrow ❤️

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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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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
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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.

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UK's first drug consumption room to open this month in Glasgow The facility will allow people to take illegal drugs under medical supervision.

UK’s first official Safer Drug Consumption Facility, ‘The Thistle’, to finally open in Glasgow on 13th January
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Starting off 2025 with a new publication! In this study we evaluated the 'WAND' initiative; a novel multi-component contingency management intervention aimed at enhancing harm reduction engagement among people who inject drugs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Charter of Rights launched today “significantly strengthens our public health and human rights-based approach to substance use-related harms and, over time, it will contribute to significantly improving and saving lives” @johnswinney.bsky.social

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On my way to the Charter of Rights launch in Glasgow today.
You can find out more about the Charter and what this will mean for people who use substances at our webinar next week 👇🏼

Good to welcome Annie Wells MSP to @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social office today to discuss what improvements we need to see in treatment and support services for people who use substances

New @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social Drugs Uncut podcast episode on ‘The Thistle’ - the first official drug consumption facility in the UK to open in Glasgow… soon 👀

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New report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy reinforcing pùblic health, decrim and regulation in place of the failed & futile War on Drugs response.

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Good morning from Warsaw.
Here for the Correlation focal points meeting and European Harm Reduction Conference

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Thanks Alex! I had a great team 😉