When: 26th January 2017 – 7-9pm Where: Thomson’s Land, Edinburgh – see the Facebook event page here. The Edinburgh Active Citizenship Group will be discussing drugs policy in Scotland as part of the January Fire Starter Festival. The evening provides an oppotunity to take part in round table discussions on how we decide what drug […]
Recovering Justice presents ‘Peaceful Solutions to the War on Drugs: Collective Voices from the Frontline…’
When: 7pm-9pm, 2nd February – Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Recovering Justice are hosting an evening with “three grassroots organisations representing the frontline of the drug war; people who have used drugs , families, criminal justice professionals and the two leading drug policy reform organisations”. They invite you to an evening of discussion and debate […]
Leading Public Health Bodies Call for Reform
“Report from Royal Society for Public Health and Faculty of Public Health says misuse of drugs should be a health issue, not a criminal one”. The calls to move funding for drugs from the Home Office to the Department of Health have already been implemented in Scotland, which moved funding from Justice to Health in […]
Engagement and Events
Upcoming Events 30th April 2020: SDPC and SIPR: Pragmatic Approaches to Policing People who use Drugs During Covid-19. To sign up please register with the Eventbrite listing, and you will receive a Zoom link. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/92743384961 Previous Events 29th March 2018: SDPC – Setting a Framework for Engagement – to start designing a public engagement framework […]
Government Policy and Reports
A non-comprehensive overview of Scottish and UK Government Policy and Reports. Please feel free to contact us with any suggested publications. Misuse Use of Drugs Act 1971 – main UK Act which controls drug use, sale and supply. Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 – complex Act which attempts to regulate/prohibit all psychoactive compounds for sale and […]
Institutional Reports
United Nations Special Assmbly on Drugs 2016. In April 2016 the United nations held a Special Assembly on drugs. This resulted from several member states requesting that the original date for revisiting the so called Political Declaration and Plan of Action was moved forward from 2019 to 2016 in order to instigate a wider discussion […]
