Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Really awful news. Thoughts with Christina’s family 💔 000
Reposted by Kirsten HorsburghCorey Ranger @nurseranger.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Read 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. 04723
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 12/02/2025They also heard this evidence 6 years ago in 2019…. sdf.org.uk/scottish-aff...sdf.org.ukScottish Affairs Committee inquiry on drug use in Scotland begins hearing evidence - Scottish Drugs ForumA panel of academics from universities in Glasgow and Stirling have given evidence at a hearing of the… 062
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Today I’m attending the #scvogathering in Edinburgh 020
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Productive discussions with members of the Labour Party and the Scottish Greens this week on all things Drugs Policy and Practice @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social 020
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 21/01/2025‘Brave and bold action is needed on drugs finds people’s panel’ www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2487074...glasgowtimes.co.uk'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. 120
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Rare opportunity to work with SDF on this award winning programme, supporting people with experience of substance use in to employment 🤩 021
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Safer 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 💜 030
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Nice 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.beThe Thistle - Safer Drug Consumption RoomYouTube video by Glasgow City HSCP 0121
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Inside Glasgow’s Safer Drug Consumption Facility @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social www.scotsman.com/news/inside-...scotsman.comInside the safe consumption room tasked with helping to drive down drug deathsTeam behind UK first centre aim to save lives and improve public health 075
Reposted by Kirsten HorsburghKarin Goodwin @karingoodwin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Glasgow'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-...theferret.scotA place to heal: saving lives in Toronto's toxic drug crisisAhead of the opening of Glasgow's safer drug consumption space opening, The Ferret visited Moss Park Toronto service. Listen to our podcast. 0147
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Ahead 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...copfs.gov.ukDrug consumption room statement of prosecution policy | COPFSdrugs, prosecution, policy, statement, Lord Advocate, LAGs 0113
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 05/01/2025UK’s first official Safer Drug Consumption Facility, ‘The Thistle’, to finally open in Glasgow on 13th January www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUK's first drug consumption room to open this month in GlasgowThe facility will allow people to take illegal drugs under medical supervision. 0238
Reposted by Kirsten HorsburghAndrew McAuley @arjmcauley.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Starting 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... 1169
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Charter 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... 031
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024On 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 👇🏼 040
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Good 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 010
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 06/12/2024New @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social Drugs Uncut podcast episode on ‘The Thistle’ - the first official drug consumption facility in the UK to open in Glasgow… soon 👀 050
Reposted by Kirsten HorsburghMichael Kessler @mickessler.bsky.social · 05/12/2024www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 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 0319
Kirsten Horsburgh @kirstensdf.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Good morning from Warsaw. Here for the Correlation focal points meeting and European Harm Reduction Conference 0130
