Overdose

Overdose Awareness Day, observed annually on the 31st of August, is a critical event for raising awareness about the growing issue of drug overdoses. This day not only honours those …

Also referred to by the terms ‘overdose prevention centres’, ‘safe injecting rooms’, ‘safer consumption rooms’, and ‘supervised injection sites’, DCRs are medically supervised sites where people who use drugs are …

  On 29 September 2020, Tommy Sheppard from the Scottish National Party presented a bill declaring problematic drug use is a public health emergency. Sheppard did a phenomenal job putting much …