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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Coming off this platform, more active here. www.linkedin.com/in/wez-steel...

Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Great day in Edinburgh @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social hosting a steering group for peer naloxone with Simon Community Scotland and CGL - peers have themselves reversed Overdose since being trained how to #StopTheDeaths and are providing training and naloxone kits to people at risk.

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Busy 2 days @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social with project steering groups in 2 @scottishprisons.bsky.social sites. HMPs Shotts and Kilmarnock preparing for peer to peer naloxone supply. Sudden showers are no match for a sunny disposition! Thanks to both for supporting this work. #StopTheDeaths

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

A big thank you to the Brittish Medical Association for the invitation to speak today. We can reduce harms in secure environments! @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Heading to the big smoke to speak about how multiple stays in prison informs my work on peer naloxone at @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social Caffeine seems to be keeping the nerves at bay (for now at least!) BMA healthcare in secure environments conference share.google/O4FT97M41Smf...

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Happy supprt don't punish day Nice people take drugs Most folk don't develop problems Supporting people towards improved wellbeing gets my vote!

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Great day @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social co-piloting @Paula Duffy delivering naloxone training for trainers to 11 residents who can then train their peers to be supplied naloxone prior to liberation. #StopTheDeaths

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Lynn Raune highlighting how It's not easy to talk about the human rights if drug dealers - everyone wants somebody to blame. Their aspiration is for love, care and family not violence and prison. We need to look at the drivers, poverty, oppression and colonisation. #ISSDP2025

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Interesting pre www.issdp.org conference workshop day. A privilege to speak alongside this panel. We can and must do more to reduce harms for people who use drugs. @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Brilliant couple of days with @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social meeting up with the sharps team, some great folk doing great work! @sacasrstir.bsky.social and @salvationarmyuk.bsky.social Supporting Harm Reduction through PeerSupport - the SHaRPS study.

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Great team at Simon community thanks for inviting @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social to come and deliver naloxone training for trainers. Best way to end a busy week #StopTheDeaths

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Scottish Drugs Forum’s annual #StopTheDeaths conference returns with a two-day event focussed on reducing drug-related deaths and harms. 📅 Wednesday 27th & Thursday 28th August 📍Radisson Blu Hotel, Glasgow Timed to mark International Overdose Awareness Day. Book now: sdf.org.uk/get-involved...

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#StopTheDeaths Conference 2025 - Scottish Drugs Forum

SDF’s annual #StopTheDeaths conference 2025 Prioritising people – from politics to practice Day 1: 27 August 2025 –…

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I am looking forward to the day at eapcct.org with this legend @lynncouper.bsky.social chatting all things harm reduction @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Great to be a part of CGL and Simon Community Scotland and @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social joining forces to reduce drug deaths with a collaborative peer naloxone group. Emotional hearing peoples experiences today, peers are ideally placed to deliver harm reduction interventions! #StopTheDeaths

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

sdf.org.uk/reflections-... "We must also be clear that our role is not to push people toward specific outcomes, whether that’s abstinence, treatment, or any particular definition of recovery." I have definitely found my tribe @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social

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Reflections From My First Two Years as CEO of Scottish Drugs Forum - Scottish Drugs Forum

When I stepped into the role of CEO two years ago, I knew I was taking on more…

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

When you try talking to teddy before his morning coffee......

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Great day with 13 peers from 6 areas and 5 organisations @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social Thanks to @mariebethk.bsky.social for co-hosting. Gutted @emir-t.bsky.social couldn't join but someone gotta keep the momentum going in the GGC Prisons, Anyone would think ya were on a mission to #StopTheDeaths

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Stoked to be supporting a peer to peer collaboration on home turf. Big shout to an OG of the P2P game Dave Sheriff and the one and only Fra Sportellino We CAN prevent drug deaths We just need to know how #StopTheDeaths

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I can think of worse ways to start ya day. Annual leave you glorious thing you!

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Great day at Dumbarton rock recovery cafe delivering a naloxone session. @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social #stopthedeaths

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Great initial meeting with HMP Kilmarnock today. @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social & @scottishprisons.bsky.social @ NHS working together expanding peer to peer naloxone for people due to be liberated to another site. Some really positive chat today, thanks to all who attended. #Stopthedeaths

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

peers reach people and places conventional routes do not! people with experience of drug use are best placed to deliver harm reduction knowledge in prison settings.

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It's was great to get in and connect with the 2 groups of naloxone peer champions @scottishprisons.bsky.social in HMP Dumfries. Great chat about how the model could be improved to #StopTheDeaths @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Keys Phone Naloxone NEVER leave home without it #StopTheDeaths

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A big thank you to staff for showing us round the Thistle safer drug consumption room today. I'd encourage anyone with any interest, especially anyone skeptical to find out more about how the service operates.

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Suspected drug deaths down but still way to many dying preventable deaths! #stopthedeaths www.gov.scot/publications...

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Toolkit and resources from the National Collaborative Charter of Rights for people affected by substance use. "Steps must be taken by services and organisations to positively protect people’s lives, especially when they are at risk"

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Get trained Carry ya kit Save a life Drugs in Scotland are changing. Check on ya pals, don't use alone #StopTheDeaths

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Great day delivering naloxone training for trainers to a group of residents passionate about offering folk leaving @scottishprisons.bsky.social naloxone to #StopTheDeaths @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social We CAN prevent drug deaths We just need to know how!

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

A truly great listener, but Freddie lacks any useful navigation skills....

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Stay safe, check on your pals, carry naloxone!

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Positive initial meeting with @scottishprisons.bsky.social and NHS colleagues exploring peer naloxone with @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social in HMP Shotts #StopTheDeaths

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Dana Larsen @danalarsen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Prohibition and drug war are the CAUSE of fentanyl, not the solution.

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hammers and chisels at today's office.... Still always got naloxone to hand tho, one of many tools to reduce drug deaths!

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Nice relaxing day off from the day job... 🤣

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Great day @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social speaking to students about my previous experiences of discrimination as a person using drugs and latterly working in services. Thanks for the invite, Edinburgh University Some insightful questions and comments. #StopTheDeaths

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Wez Steele @steelewez.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Been a tough day eh teddy? Lol

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Esther Chung @estherchung.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Our new study found 44% of syringe services programs (SSPs) distributed safer smoking supplies in 2022. SSPs distributing supplies had more participant encounters and naloxone distribution. Safer smoking supplies are a key tool to connect people who use drugs to life-saving services.

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Association of safer smoking supply distribution with participant encounters and naloxone distribution from syringe services programs: Findings from the National Survey of Syringe Services Programs in...

In response to the recent and growing shift from injecting heroin to smoking fentanyl, an increasing number of syringe services programs (SSPs) in the…

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