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  • 04/02/202504/02/2025
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Why is a pilot Safer Drugs Consumption Facility (SDCF) being opened in Glasgow, and how is it intended to reduce harm from problem drug use in the area?

Turning Point Scotland submitted a response to Scottish Affairs Committee (SAC) inquiry on the Safer Consumption Pilot Facility. Some key points of the response included: To read in more detail about our response, click the link below. [...]

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  • 14/06/202429/08/2024
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill SWOT

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 [...]

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  • 14/05/202429/08/2024
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

Looking ahead to the anticipated Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill

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 [...]

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  • 11/09/202329/08/2024
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

Response to the Lord Advocates statement on a safer consumption facility pilot in Glasgow

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 [...]

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  • 31/08/202305/11/2024
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

Drug law reform – welcome statements, but we need urgent action to save lives

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 [...]

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  • 31/08/202329/08/2024
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

Turning Point Scotland’s response to calls for a Safe Consumption Facilities pilot

At Turning Point Scotland we have been calling for drug law reform. The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 is outdated and prevents us from being able to do some of the evidenced-based work that we know will save lives. This includes establishing Safe Consumption Facilities in key areas impacted by [...]

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  • 12/01/202229/08/2024
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

TPS response to the proposed Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill

Today we have submitted our response to Douglas Ross MSP’s proposed Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill.  This Private Member’s Bill aims to: We have taken our time to work out how we want to respond to these proposals, because while we welcome the action and commitment from the Scottish [...]

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