Kirsten Horsburgh
@kirstensdf.bsky.social
CEO at Scottish Drugs Forum
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Scottish Drugs Forum is extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Christina McKelvie, Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy.
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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…
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March 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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 💔
Easterhouse-born Scottish Government minister Christina McKelvie died at the age of 57, her partner announced.
Full story: www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2504173...
Full story: www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2504173...
March 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really awful news. Thoughts with Christina’s family 💔
Reposted by Kirsten Horsburgh
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.
Shutting down SCS/OPS, restricting access to safe supply, deprescribing and forced tapering, it all kills.
In the past two weeks 5 people from the south riverdale community here in Toronto have overdosed and died. That’s only who we know. Some neighbours, columnists, politicians rallied to close supervised consumption sites & safe supply -our communities not theirs are dying en masse. I feel 💔.
March 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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.
Shutting down SCS/OPS, restricting access to safe supply, deprescribing and forced tapering, it all kills.
Reposted by Kirsten Horsburgh
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.
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…
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March 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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.
Reposted by Kirsten Horsburgh
🚨EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW🚨
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
For more info & to grab your discounted Early Bird tickets: buff.ly/3Czb3wB
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
For more info & to grab your discounted Early Bird tickets: buff.ly/3Czb3wB
February 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🚨EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW🚨
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
For more info & to grab your discounted Early Bird tickets: buff.ly/3Czb3wB
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
For more info & to grab your discounted Early Bird tickets: buff.ly/3Czb3wB
February 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Today I’m attending the #scvogathering in Edinburgh
February 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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
January 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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’
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2487074...
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2487074...
'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.
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
‘Brave and bold action is needed on drugs finds people’s panel’
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2487074...
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2487074...
Rare opportunity to work with SDF on this award winning programme, supporting people with experience of substance use in to employment 🤩
We are Hiring! 📣
We are pleased to be recruiting a Coordination and Development Officer as part of our National Traineeship team. For more information and to apply please click the link below.
Deadline: 3rd February 2025 at 5pm
Apply at: sdf.org.uk/sdf-jobs/
We are pleased to be recruiting a Coordination and Development Officer as part of our National Traineeship team. For more information and to apply please click the link below.
Deadline: 3rd February 2025 at 5pm
Apply at: sdf.org.uk/sdf-jobs/
January 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Rare opportunity to work with SDF on this award winning programme, supporting people with experience of substance use in to employment 🤩
Reposted by Kirsten Horsburgh
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 💻
📅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 💻
January 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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 💻
📅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 💜
January 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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 💜
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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The Thistle - Safer Drug Consumption Room
YouTube video by Glasgow City HSCP
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January 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Nice new video from colleagues in Glasgow for people who are considering using the Safer Drug Consumption Facility ‘The Thistle’, opening tomorrow ❤️
youtu.be/Zb51mNyt2v4?...
youtu.be/Zb51mNyt2v4?...
Reposted by Kirsten Horsburgh
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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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...
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
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January 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Inside Glasgow’s Safer Drug Consumption Facility
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Reposted by Kirsten Horsburgh
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.
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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-...
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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Drug consumption room statement of prosecution policy | COPFS
drugs, prosecution, policy, statement, Lord Advocate, LAGs
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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...
UK’s first official Safer Drug Consumption Facility, ‘The Thistle’, to finally open in Glasgow on 13th January
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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.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
UK’s first official Safer Drug Consumption Facility, ‘The Thistle’, to finally open in Glasgow on 13th January
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Kirsten Horsburgh
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...
January 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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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December 11, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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
www.gov.scot/news/charter...
www.gov.scot/news/charter...
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 👇🏼
You can find out more about the Charter and what this will mean for people who use substances at our webinar next week 👇🏼
1 week to go until our webinar on The Charter of Rights 💻
A reminder that when you RSVP on our website, please follow the Zoom link in the email you receive to complete registration for the event ✔️
You can RSVP here: buff.ly/4fQcEfL
A reminder that when you RSVP on our website, please follow the Zoom link in the email you receive to complete registration for the event ✔️
You can RSVP here: buff.ly/4fQcEfL
December 11, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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 👇🏼
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
December 6, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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 👀
'Glasgow - Delivering the UK's first Drug Consumption Room' new Drugs Uncut episode out now🎙️
We were joined by Dr Saket Priyadarshi & Gillian Ferguson to discuss delivering the UK's first drug consumption room - the issues it will address; how it has been designed & delivered.
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We were joined by Dr Saket Priyadarshi & Gillian Ferguson to discuss delivering the UK's first drug consumption room - the issues it will address; how it has been designed & delivered.
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December 6, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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 👀
Reposted by Kirsten Horsburgh
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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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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.
@niamhrelease.bsky.social @idpc.bsky.social @kirstensdf.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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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.
@niamhrelease.bsky.social @idpc.bsky.social @kirstensdf.bsky.social
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.
@niamhrelease.bsky.social @idpc.bsky.social @kirstensdf.bsky.social
Good morning from Warsaw.
Here for the Correlation focal points meeting and European Harm Reduction Conference
Here for the Correlation focal points meeting and European Harm Reduction Conference
December 1, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Good morning from Warsaw.
Here for the Correlation focal points meeting and European Harm Reduction Conference
Here for the Correlation focal points meeting and European Harm Reduction Conference