Today it was announced there have been 1,277 alcohol related deaths and we send our condolences to those who have lost a loved one. We believe more can be done prevent this unnecessary loss of life. A minimum unit price on alcohol has a place in reducing harm to the [...]
1,172 more people have died because they used drugs. Our thoughts are with the families, friends and communities who have lost people unnecessarily. More than three years since the National Mission to reduce drug related deaths and harms was launched, how can this still be happening? There will be a [...]
Turning Point Scotland has officially opened a new clinical facility at the charity’s recently launched North Lanarkshire Crisis Outreach Service in Airdrie. This is the second clinical room Turning Point Scotland have opened this year to enhance access to primary healthcare services for the people the charity support, having launched [...]
Turning Point Scotland have prepared a summary of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill. We share this SWOT analysis to give a broader perspective to the Bill and to support a nuanced and informed consideration of its proposals. The SWOT can be [...]
We understand that Douglas Ross MSP will publish an updated Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill on Wednesday. Turning Point Scotland responded to the consultation on the draft Bill in January 2022, which at that point aimed to We carefully considered our response to the proposals, because while we welcomed [...]
Turning Point Scotland North Ayrshire Prevention, Early intervention and Recovery (PEAR) Service hosted a visit from Glasgow Clan Ice Hockey at Ardeer Community Centre this week. Cody Sol, Bryce Reddick and Dyson Stevenson came along to speak to staff and people supported by PEAR and Turnaround service about setting goals, [...]
Turning Point Scotland’s North Lanarkshire Crisis Outreach service in Airdrie hosted a Launch Day this week, inviting key partners from across the community. The new service located in Stirling House began delivering support to people to increase their engagement with alcohol and other drugs services, in November 2023. About 100 [...]
Turning Point Scotland have opened the North Lanarkshire Crisis Outreach service in Airdrie to reduce drug-related harm and death. This week the new service began delivering support that will include rapid response to near-fatal overdose, which provides a short, focused period of support for individuals. Commissioned by North Lanarkshire Council, [...]
We welcome this long-awaited statement by the Lord Advocate, and agree with the position taken that it would not be in the public interest to prosecute anyone using a Safer Consumption Facility (SCF) for possession. We hope this statement, alongside calls from the Scottish Drug Forum for greater urgency to this [...]
Today, on International Overdose Awareness Day, the Home Affairs Committee (HAC) at the House of Commons has called for drug law reform and a public health approach to drug use. In July the Scottish Government published ‘A Caring, Compassionate and Human Rights Informed Drug Policy for Scotland’, calling for decriminalisation [...]