System response to drug trends
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Date
23 January 2024
Location
Online via Teams
Details
On 23 January 2024 Ruth Robin, Portfolio Lead for Transformation and Improvement in Drugs, Alcohol and Housing (TIDAH), Healthcare Improvement Scotland, hosted the sixth MAT Standards national webinar focusing on emerging trends in substance use and system responses to them. We learned about;
- Police Scotland’s Substance Harm Prevention strategy,
- Non-Clinical Interventions For Stimulant Addiction,
- The development of work in Benzodiazepine harm reduction.
Speakers
Donna Mackay
Inspector, Substance Harm Prevention, Police Scotland
Elise Wilson
Lead, Non-Fatal Overdose pathway in D Division, Police Scotland
Peter Cochrane,
Senior Recovery Development Worker, Recovery Scotland
Elinor Dickie
Organisational Lead, Drugs Team Place & Wellbeing Directorate at Public Health Scotland