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Keeping that human connection during the pandemic
[…] We’ve also explored new ways to provide support offline. We started finding ways to help people access food, clothing and toiletries in lockdown. We also began distributing Naloxone — a lifesaving medication to reverse opioid overdose — door to door and providing doorstep training. The end result of this hard work is that, despite […]
Make It Happen! programme
[…] harm reduction café, head and shoulder massages, taster sessions on auricular acupuncture, yoga class, film show, photo booth (all day). 1.45pm-3.00pm: ‘Perspectives’, chaired by Alistair Sinclair, UKRF Naloxone – Nigel Brunsdon, Injecting Advice and HIT Visible recovery – Lancashire User Forum (LUF) Hep C van – Jim Conneely, Hepatitis C Trust The case for […]
Rising tide
[…] cent increase in funding for the sector in Wales, with a focus on harm reduction, protecting families and reducing drug-related deaths. There were good projects on distributing naloxone, said Phipps, as well as effective service user involvement and a pragmatic approach to patient choice. There was now a need to be ‘brave and bold’ […]
DDN080908
[…] tier 2 and tier 3 treatment and have pioneered a range of support from enhanced needle exchange, low-threshold prescribing, group based intervention, right through to a unique Naloxone prescribing partnership. The work is varied, interesting and differs from many other existing treatment settings. We have vacancies currently working in three of our busy 1st […]
Seamless Systems
[…] for the psychosocial teams to commence effective release planning and coordination of continuity of care is crucial, and there has been an increase in the numbers of naloxone kits, training and harm reduction advice disseminated to patients prior to release. Patient feedback Patient feedback has been paramount to determining the next steps on this […]
A new normal
[…] are vulnerable, isolated, quarantined or shielded in local communities; information about digital support is distributed through the food parcels. Local treatment providers have been supported to deliver naloxone and safe storage boxes Support has been given to individuals in recovery housing. However, with no face-to-face mutual aid running and normal peer support ‘suspended’, a […]
Scotland sees fall in injecting levels
[…] recorded for the seventh year in a row, and by far the highest in Europe. Police Scotland recently announced that it would be equipping its officers with naloxone across the whole country (DDN, March, page 4), with Scotland’s lord advocate confirming that police could now issue warnings for class A drugs – rather than […]
Never a dull moment
[…] AUGUST Scottish drug-related deaths fall by 9 per cent, after two years of record high figures, with the Scottish Government pointing to the success of their take-home naloxone programme. Legislation finally comes into force allowing drug services to provide aluminium foil, and an all-party group of MPs calls for health warnings to be put […]
Letters January 2014
[…] and so need the opportunity to learn. Resistive cases ‘who just don’t get it when it comes to embracing recovery’ may well be contenders for OST or naloxone, but the other 70 to 75 per cent have been proving for 48 years that they are enthusiastic and successful students when it comes to training […]
DDN090209
[…] treatment. REGULARS 4 NEWS ROUND-UP More monitoring needed on overdose risk • No alcohol for under-15s • A third of people unaware of hep C risks • Naloxone pilot volunteers wanted • Alcohol death rate drops • Voices for Choices conference debates user involvement • News in brief 8 LETTERS AND COMMENT Trauma article […]
Pharmacists allowed to dispense methadone without prescription
[…] notified and ‘rigorous’ ID checks carried out, it stresses. People will need to be able to safely store medicines in locked boxes and have access to take-home naloxone, the document adds, as well as be able to maintain regular contact with the professionals responsible for their prescriptions. ‘Pharmacists will also need to be supported […]
Overdose prevention centres could save ‘thousands’ of lives, says major evidence review
[…] our review showed is that OPCs can help save lives in an urgent and growing drug-death crisis in the UK. Alongside other essential public-health strategies such as naloxone availability and real-time drug testing, the adoption of OPCs in areas of need will help reduce the enormous costs facing our communities.’ Overdose prevention centres, safe […]
DDN0903
[…] and hospitals. At the moment if you have an overdose and get taken to hospital in Sandwell there isnât really any follow-up care â they give you naloxone to bring you out of it and pretty much send you on your way. Thereâs no referral process or anything like that, so weâre trying to […]
Fifty areas to get enhanced treatment funding
[…] what we can already say is that further funding could be used to increase the number of people who can access treatment, contribute to wider provision of naloxone as well as improving workforce skills.’ His charity welcomed the ‘serious political commitment to investing in treatment’ and looked forward to ‘working collaboratively to address these […]
Safe Space
[…] The devolved Welsh government has harm reduction firmly embedded in its substance misuse strategy (Working together to reduce harm, 2008), which has led to a countrywide take-home naloxone scheme. It has also supported the set-up of Wedinos, a service to test substances to give individuals rapid and accurate information to reduce harms, and introduced […]
Matters of Life and Death
[…] our reluctance to have them deprives drug users who die the dignity and rights we afford to other members of society. KFx workshops have moved online during the current lockdown. Email kevin@kfx.org.uk for joining instructions. red rose illustrating grief advert for naloxone Kevin Flemen runs the drugs education and training initiative KFx – www.kfx.org.uk
News in brief
[…] to just over 130 last year from more than 150 in 2010, according to Welsh Government statistics. More than 200 lives have also been saved since 2009 through the take-home naloxone campaign, the government says. Substance misuse in Wales 2012-13 and Working together to reduce harm: substance misuse strategy annual report 2013 at wales.gov.uk
Who cares?
[…] they have in common? Extremely good access to opioid substitution therapy (OST). What else helps? Drug consumption rooms (DCRs), heroin-assisted treatment, measures to reduce homelessness, and take-home naloxone. What do I think killed Darren? People not seeing him as a person and services not seeing him as an individual – as well as the […]
Nitazenes detected in 25 Scottish drug deaths
[…] same batch, he pointed out, meaning that people needed to be more vigilant. They could reduce risks by ‘dosing low, going slow, avoiding mixing drugs and ensuring naloxone is to hand’, he added, as well as making sure there are people around who could respond in an emergency. Meanwhile, the latest drug and alcohol […]
DDN Conference 2019 Programme
[…] Recovery Jon Roberts, Dear Albert ——— 1-2.15pm – lunch and exhibition ——— 2.15-4pm, Insights 2.15-2.30 – My Lightbulb Moment – The Recovery Street Film Festival 2.30-2.50 – Naloxone: a personal story. Kevin Jaffray shares his moving experience of this life-saving intervention. 2.50-3.10 – Turning the tables. Owen Baily gives invaluable insight into gambling addiction […]
Shared perspectives
[…] This group has had no direct overdose deaths, because of course they don’t need to use the poison on our streets. Massive publicity and easy availability of naloxone kits have also helped hundreds to reverse their overdose and stay alive. I planned to outline the differences between UK and Canadian services. I remembered DATs […]
The DDN Conference 2023
[…] and services. It is a fantastic chance to learn about all of the support available, including legal advice and employment guidance, as well as new skills and naloxone training. It’s not all work though! Get involved in sports activities and games, watch films and find out about entering the Recovery Film Festival. Relax with […]
Harm reduction worldwide has ‘stalled’, warns HRI
[…] emergence of fentanyl in Europe, meanwhile, should ‘instil greater urgency in preventing drug-related deaths’ and adds weight to the ‘already strong arguments for increasing the availability of naloxone and DCRs’. There are an estimated 15.6m people worldwide who inject drugs, with more than half living with hepatitis C and almost one in five living […]
DDN0405
[…] the platform at the International Harm Reduction Conference. She was introduced as a passionate campaigner for drug users’ rights and a harm reduction pioneer, preventing overdose with naloxone in Cambodia. But when it came to Srey Mao’s turn to speak, she just couldn’t. The slides for her talk rolled behind her and showed her […]
Every step of the way
[…] substance misuse treatment in prison and in the community. This ensures that prisoners do not leave without having received their prescribed dose or onward prescription and a naloxone kit. After stepping over the threshold, prison leavers are then invited to the visitors’ centre outside the prison gate. Over a cup of coffee Departure Lounge […]
Looking after people on Medication Assisted Treatment during the Coronavirus pandemic
[…] shelters, or rough sleepers. We are also taking a range of actions to mitigate any risks associated with 2 weekly supplies by providing people with locked boxes, naloxone and regular telephone contact. We are monitoring this situation on a daily basis and will adjust our approach if the data indicates there are increased overdoses, […]
Families First Conference 2013 programme
[…] and Families: Lauren Booker, workplace programme manager, Alcohol Concern. Club drugs and legal highs: Becky Harris and Mark Dunn, The Club Drug Clinic Carers’ rights: Princes Trust Naloxone: Nigel Brunsdon 2.50 – 3.10: Coffee 3:10pm: Stigma – ‘Speak Out Campaign’ – Kate Peake Kate will share how new publicity techniques such as flash mobs […]
SDF launches nitazenes resource pack
[…] so long as drug supply is unregulated. But the core message is to try and reduce risk as far as people can and to carry and use naloxone if someone overdoses. We have an imperfect picture of what is happening in Scotland. This is because we’ve been slow to heed warnings and adequately prepare. […]
False economies
[…] is becoming understood as more than just training, but it’s taking time and it’s still early days,’ said Burton. Among the SDF’s current priorities were the national naloxone programme, work on quality development and service improvement, strong user involvement including a programme to train people in recovery to join the workforce, programmes on hepatitis […]
Categorise people dependent on drugs as high-risk population, government urged
[…] buprenorphine, it adds, while systems also need to be put in place to ensure an adequate supply of sterile injecting equipment and other harm reduction supplies, including naloxone. Failure to protect this population would cost ‘far more both financially and in lives lost’ than the investment in treatment and the other suggested support, the […]
A Different Key
[…] were available when people came into prison, to make sure they were well enough to have interventions, and there was planning around release that included carrying a naloxone kit. ‘We want to replicate in prison the options that people could have in the community,’ she said, including prescribing slow-release buprenorphine injections (which lasted a […]
Community Support
[…] A UK map of local services offering bereavement support. Search here. Needle Exchange Finder. Find where to pick up free equipment and naloxone in England. Search here Treatment Providers Here are some of the organisations that provide community treatment services that are free at the point of access. […]
Street Benzos: Clinical Management That’s Fit for Purpose
[…] supporting people dependent on benzodiazepines across the sector. This approach must include promoting drug testing to all people who use drugs, as well as greater access to naloxone. Additionally, we must improve screening tests to have an understanding of what benzodiazepines – and potentially other substances such as nitazenes – the person has used […]
Consuming passion
[…] months ago by outreach drug worker and trainer Philippe Bonnet – who is also deputy chair of the National Needle Exchange Forum (NNEF), chair of the Birmingham naloxone steering group and a trustee of homeless charity Birmingham Christmas Shelter – the consortium has already attracted some well-known names from the sector, including NNEF chair […]
March issue
[…] – and even a meeting on finding common ground. There were lively sessions that could plant the seeds for change – a discussion that showed a wider naloxone roll-out could be getting closer, a constructive forum to change the doctor/patient relationship for the better, a call to respond to the needs of older users, […]
‘Bold policies’ needed to tackle drug deaths crisis, says royal college
[…] COVID-19 pandemic on drug use, it adds, as well as more research on ‘complex poly-drug use’. The college also states its support for the targeted administration of naloxone and for further action to tackle stigma. Prof Angela Thomas: ‘Our report proposes some key interventions.’ ‘Many of the college’s fellows and members regularly treat and […]
DDN Diary Dates
[…] a weekly Zoom meeting with leading experts in the field each Thursday at 7pm. www.skillsdevelopment.co.uk – – – – – – SMMGP Free online courses currently covering naloxone provision and overdose prevention, and community management of alcohol disorders. www.smmgp-elearning.org.uk Training Training for individuals and organisations including accredited professional development, qualifications and independent training. Most […]
Review of the year – 2023
[…] local areas that they need to plan how to ‘rapidly understand and assess’ the risks and minimise the impact – including by improving drug information systems and naloxone supply. Scotland’s latest drug death figures show a 21 per cent reduction, however, although the figure is still almost quadruple the level of 20 years ago. […]
DDN16nov09
[…] attending the following 30 minute workshops: Setting up an advocacy service â how to, why you need one, what your expectations should be (The Alliance) Naloxone â The challenges and the tools to overcome them (Danny Morris, Independent consultant) Running a user magazine, website, and member communications (tbc) Healthy eating […]
Turning the tables
[…] at where someone’s recovery journey started and finished and how we could incorporate this journey into a variety of awards. Rightly or wrongly, we decided that getting naloxone training should be the first award or first step to recovery, as this was where someone, who may not be stable or even in treatment, took […]
A change of heart
[…] ‘The government has to direct significant investment in drug services as a matter of urgency,’ he said, with funding made available to ensure heroin-assisted treatment, needle exchanges, naloxone, and consumption rooms (on a pilot basis, with evaluation), as well as testing at festivals. ‘The first priority must be to strengthen drug treatment services and […]
Stay ahead of CQC
[…] SADQ and CIWa for alcohol dependence and withdrawal, and other tests for drug dependence such as SDS. They often comment on the use of emergency medication such naloxone and rescue medication for seizures. NICE guidelines figure highly in CQC inspection reports, whereas they are only mentioned in passing in the ‘key lines of enquiry’. […]
A Vital Role
[…] people can access the vaccine and complete both doses? Through involving clinically trained peers – and most recently through a campaign involving the ‘superheroes’ Vaccine Woman and Naloxone Man – we can make the vaccine accessible where service users already attend, be that their treatment setting or hostel, a disused car park or a […]
DDN30nov09
[…] attending the following 30 minute workshops: Setting up an advocacy service – how to, why you need one, what your expectations should be (The Alliance) Naloxone – The challenges and the tools to overcome them (Danny Morris, Independent consultant) Running a user magazine, website, and member communications (tbc) Healthy eating […]
Heroin Assisted Treatment – A helping hand
[…] and post-injection assessment, injecting takes place twice a day in one of four booths. Crucially, while they are there visitors are offered injecting equipment, wound management and naloxone. In the pharmacy at the back of the EDTS, the controlled drug cupboard is operated by fingerprints and monitored by CCTV, and there is a research […]
Bringing care to the streets of Hackney
[…] from other organisations to make sure our high-risk clients are being cared for. “We’re also able to give out food vouchers, harm reduction medicine – such as Naloxone (to reduce death by overdose), and help signpost toward accommodation when the temperatures drop below freezing. “Each week the clinical van will be targeting different places […]
Vital connections
[…] can now go on working with them and liaise. The drop out rates are down – it’s been amazing.’ Another success is that the team all carry naloxone in their bags, and consider that this should be mandatory everywhere. The success of partnership working has energised the team’s proactive approach to trying different initiatives, […]
Dark Secrets
[…] suppliers may mean it’s possible to reduce risks by further interaction between individual sellers and health promotion agencies in key harm reduction areas such as drug alerts, naloxone and needle exchange distribution. With drug-related deaths and drug harms soaring, it may be time to ask ourselves if we should be engaging better with our […]
Picture This
[…] We can use photography to highlight our achievements, celebrate the big personalities in our community, raise awareness of events and important issues – like the availability of naloxone – and promote change. ‘But it has to be us doing it,’ he stressed. ‘No one is knocking down our door wanting to take pictures of […]
On borrowed time
[…] United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs (UNGASS). The minister’s priorities should include following guidance provided by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) – including ensuring comprehensive access to the life-saving drug naloxone across the whole of the UK, and making NICE-approved treatments available to all patients diagnosed with hepatitis C.
Needle Exchange Pharmacy Coordinator
[…] Needle Exchange provision across the district. •Train and induct new staff members to be competent to work within the Needle Exchange. •Regulate the service’s needle exchange and Naloxone/Nyxoid stock provision, keeping appropriate records in line with budgetary requirements. •Representing the service at Regional and National Harm Reduction Forums. •Leading on harm reduction initiatives with […]
DDN September 2018
[…] we can offer help at the first sign of struggle. The theme of peer-to-peer expertise runs deep through this month’s issue. Local user groups are networking with naloxone initiatives (page 16), while EuroNPUD are rolling out a far-reaching overdose prevention project. We’ll follow its progress with interest. Three minutes isn’t long to tell your […]
Part Time Specialist Substance Use Nurse
[…] a sector leader. As a Specialist Substance Use Nurse you will be involved with supporting opiate substitute treatment, alcohol and opiate detoxifications and promoting the uptake of naloxone. You will also provide support to the team providing Blood Borne Virus screening and vaccinations and will work closely with mental health, physical health and social care […]
Open market
[…] transactions, just a polite email requesting to be sent one of the most vilified substances on the planet. Accompanied by other, highly fresh Hot Topics talks on naloxone, legal highs, club drugs, the drug trade, harm reduction, sex work, employing users and policing, Power’s presentation shed light on the world’s rapidly changing drug market, […]
From little acorns…
[…] challenge stigma and support their members’ personal journeys. Peer-led groups now operate as equal partners supporting local treatment services, contributing widely to the community. Campaigning for national naloxone provision and other outreach initiatives has also seen groups break down the traditional barriers between harm reduction and recovery to share common ground. Peter Yarwood from […]
Your letters
[…] placement for publishing the article ‘The road less travelled’ (November, page 16), in which we reported the results of our research comparing the impact of Suboxone (buprenorphine naloxone combination) and methadone. The DDN article was a cut-down version of a paper that was first published in the peer reviewed Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. […]
Conference Prog 2023v2
[…] Peer power – a story of co - production Cranstoun ’s team share their dynamic harm reduction initiatives . Alistair Bryant describes the PACK s peer team’s naloxone distribution and Luke O’Neil explains how they used innovative tech to create BuddyU p . From policy to practice Laura Pechey from the government’s Office for […]
Harm Reduction Information Hub for North Yorkshire
[…] awareness events, and practitioners can discover learning opportunities provided by other agencies across our region. Sessions will cover topics like an introduction to drugs/ alcohol and administering naloxone, a life-saving medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdoses. Prior to launching the site, people who use alcohol and other drugs, and experts […]
Reflection of hope
[…] cure, and for many clients may be just part of their journey – an ethos underlined by equipping clients with relapse prevention training, RPM medication, and take-home naloxone on leaving the facility. What is very clearly on offer at Birchwood is the opportunity for people to reset their lives and make fundamental changes. ‘While […]
Most of Northern Ireland’s drug deaths among young people
[…] recent drug deaths’, the document states. More resources, including staff, also need to be allocated to outreach work targeting younger people, it adds, along with enhanced peer naloxone training. ‘The prevention of each of these deaths is possible, making it essential for the Department of Health, the NI Executive, and society to prioritise this […]