Families Campaign for Change
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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!
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@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.
May 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@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.
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"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
May 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"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
#CompassionateDrugReform
#CompassionateDrugReform
May 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Thank you to @AFINetwork Conference for supporting Families Campaign for Change in our Call for Action: An 18th UN Sustainable Goal- Compassionate Drug Reform
#CompassionateDrugReform
#CompassionateDrugReform
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
#CompassionateDrugReform
‘Harm Reduction is a humanistic and compassionate approach’
AFINet Conference Quebec 2025
#CompassionateDrugReform
May 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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
#CompassionateDrugReform
‘Harm Reduction is a humanistic and compassionate approach’
AFINet Conference Quebec 2025
#CompassionateDrugReform
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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!
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!
May 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🌟 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!
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!
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.
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.
April 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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.
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.
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!
March 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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!
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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
View the full suite of resources here: buff.ly/3Q65Lvw
February 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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
View the full suite of resources here: buff.ly/3Q65Lvw
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Please do join us next week if you're in Stirling or St Ninians!
📣 Based in Forth Valley? Join us & @scottishfamilies.bsky.social at the See Beyond Roadshows at Stirling Libraries!
📆 Stirling Central Library: 17th Feb, 2-5pm
📆St Ninians Library: 21st Feb, 2-5pm
Be part of the discussion to help challenge stigma and inspire change.
💻 seebeyondscotland.com
📆 Stirling Central Library: 17th Feb, 2-5pm
📆St Ninians Library: 21st Feb, 2-5pm
Be part of the discussion to help challenge stigma and inspire change.
💻 seebeyondscotland.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Please do join us next week if you're in Stirling or St Ninians!
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February 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Inside Glasgow’s Safer Drug Consumption Facility
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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
www.scotsman.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Inside Glasgow’s Safer Drug Consumption Facility
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#CompassionateDrugReform in action 👏👏👏
The UK's first safer drug consumption facility – The Thistle – which authorities hope will save lives, help marginalised people get better support and reduce public injecting, will open its doors on Monday in Glasgow. https://theferret.scot/uk-first-safer-consumption-space-opens-doors/
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.
theferret.scot
January 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
#CompassionateDrugReform in action 👏👏👏
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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:
sdf.org.uk/safer-drug-c...
Read our CEO Kirsten Horsburgh's statement here:
sdf.org.uk/safer-drug-c...
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…
sdf.org.uk
January 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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:
sdf.org.uk/safer-drug-c...
Read our CEO Kirsten Horsburgh's statement here:
sdf.org.uk/safer-drug-c...
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"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/
https://theferret.scot/uk-first-safer-consumption-space-opens-doors/
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.
theferret.scot
January 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"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/
https://theferret.scot/uk-first-safer-consumption-space-opens-doors/
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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-...
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-...
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.
theferret.scot
January 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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-...
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-...
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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...
www.copfs.gov.uk/publications...
Drug consumption room statement of prosecution policy | COPFS
drugs, prosecution, policy, statement, Lord Advocate, LAGs
www.copfs.gov.uk
January 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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...
www.copfs.gov.uk/publications...
Well done Ireland 👏👏👏#CompassionateDrugReform in action.
www.rte.ie/news/2024/12...
www.rte.ie/news/2024/12...
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.
www.rte.ie
December 18, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Well done Ireland 👏👏👏#CompassionateDrugReform in action.
www.rte.ie/news/2024/12...
www.rte.ie/news/2024/12...
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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/
November 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM
🔴 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/
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
#CompassionateDrugReformhttps://theferret.scot/drug-crisis-dublin
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.
theferret.scot
December 14, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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
#CompassionateDrugReformhttps://theferret.scot/drug-crisis-dublin
Familes Campaign for Change #CompassionateDrugReform
Inspiring and informative week with Rialto Community Drug Team
Dublin , integrated and compassionate services in action
Inspiring and informative week with Rialto Community Drug Team
Dublin , integrated and compassionate services in action
December 14, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Familes Campaign for Change #CompassionateDrugReform
Inspiring and informative week with Rialto Community Drug Team
Dublin , integrated and compassionate services in action
Inspiring and informative week with Rialto Community Drug Team
Dublin , integrated and compassionate services in action