Susan Grant
@suz281.bsky.social
Interests-trauma responsive approaches social inequalities, drug & alcohol policy and reducing harm. (She/her) All views are my own
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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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We will be encouraging more families to visit- stigma will change if we do!
#CompassionateDrugReform in action
#CompassionateDrugReform in action
April 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We will be encouraging more families to visit- stigma will change if we do!
#CompassionateDrugReform in action
#CompassionateDrugReform in action
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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.
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We’ll be sharing insights from our learning journey to Dublin, including what we learned about Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly from Senator Lynn Ruane—and our plan to push for a Citizens’ Assembly in Scotland. #AFINet2025
#CompassionateDrugReform
#CompassionateDrugReform
March 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We’ll be sharing insights from our learning journey to Dublin, including what we learned about Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly from Senator Lynn Ruane—and our plan to push for a Citizens’ Assembly in Scotland. #AFINet2025
#CompassionateDrugReform
#CompassionateDrugReform
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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!
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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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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Having the concept introduced to me was beneficial in so many ways!
Big shout out to the you and the co-authors!
Big shout out to the you and the co-authors!
Great to see our OA paper published in @commsmed.bsky.social It shares our experience of using Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) in the NIHR funded SHARPS study www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Applying Normalisation Process Theory to a peer-delivered complex health intervention for people experiencing homelessness and problem substance use - Communications Medicine
Foster, Carver et al. apply Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) to provide an understanding of how successful the Supporting Harm Reduction through Peer Support study (SHARPS) was. Overall the interven...
www.nature.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Having the concept introduced to me was beneficial in so many ways!
Big shout out to the you and the co-authors!
Big shout out to the you and the co-authors!
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Inside Glasgow’s Safer Drug Consumption Facility
@thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social
www.scotsman.com/news/inside-...
@thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social
www.scotsman.com/news/inside-...
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
@thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social
www.scotsman.com/news/inside-...
@thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social
www.scotsman.com/news/inside-...
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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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Listen back to our panel discussion on the rise of online misogyny, its impact on young people, and how it can be tackled. Available on all podcast platforms: https://theferret.scot/for-facts-sake-podcast-how-tackle-online-misogyny/
For Fact's Sake podcast LIVE: How do we tackle online misogyny?
Missed our panel on the impact of online misogyny on young people? We’ve turned it into a podcast episode!
theferret.scot
January 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Listen back to our panel discussion on the rise of online misogyny, its impact on young people, and how it can be tackled. Available on all podcast platforms: https://theferret.scot/for-facts-sake-podcast-how-tackle-online-misogyny/
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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...
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Next week, the first officially sanctioned overdose prevention centre in the UK will open in Glasgow. Here's our realist review of how they work as spaces of safety, trust, and social inclusion. doi.org/10.1111/dar....
January 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Next week, the first officially sanctioned overdose prevention centre in the UK will open in Glasgow. Here's our realist review of how they work as spaces of safety, trust, and social inclusion. doi.org/10.1111/dar....
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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...