Information sessions and Naloxone Training
Talks about overdose from both survivors and families. music from people in recovery. refreshments. memorial book. Naloxone training.
Personal accounts of overdose. Naloxone training. Music performed by people in recovery. Book of remembrance. Refreshments.
We will be showing Hearts with the names of those lost and rice packets with seeds for our remembrance
garden, there will be a tea after in the Carmelite Hotel from 2-5pm.
Gathering of service users, service providers, family members and friends with some speeches and then releasing doves
Throughout August we plan to do a set of peer to peer Naloxone training sessions as well an event to mark international overdose awareness day on 31st August 2018. On the 31st we will have an overdose Awareness event with relevant presentations and videos followed by food music and networking
Remembering those who have lost their lives through addiction.
Join us on International Overdose Day where we will be holding a memorial service for individuals who have been affected by the loss of a loved one through overdose. We will be providing tea/coffee and light refreshments alongside a service which will be delivered by the Rev. Robert Calvert within our ‘Garden of Hope’; offering a safe place for families and loved ones to come together. Naloxone and overdose training will also be available on the day.
Presentations and workshops will explore how preventing drug-related deaths is everyone’s responsibility and how we can work in partnership to avoid such devastating loss of lives.
The event will seek to build on SDF’s work on Staying Alive In Scotland and is timely, as it will follow the launch of Scotland’s drug strategy and the National Records of Scotland report on the number of lives tragically lost through preventable fatal overdoses in 2017.
Presentations and workshops will offer inspirational strategies based on good practice and training tasters on skills and knowledge required by frontline staff and managers to support improvements in service provision.
Speakers and facilitators will be drawn from key services and this event will be of interest to commissioners and planners, staff working in criminal justice and enforcement, treatment, care and support, pharmacy, general practice, first response and services working with peers and families.
This event marks International Overdose Awareness Day.
Keynote Speaker
SDF are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Dr. Marilou Gagnon, RN, PhD Associate Professor at the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa
Marilou’s research addresses gaps in knowledge that have the potential to inform public debate and policies, while also advancing the rights and the health of marginalized communities.
She was the founder of the Coalition of Nurses for Supervised Injection Services. She is the creator and manager of the Facebook campaign Harm Reduction = Nursing Care, founder and editor of the blog The Radical Nurse, and co-president of The Nursing Observatory – a watchdog collective that analyzes and takes action on key nursing issues in Canada.
Marilou is a co-founder and current President of the Harm Reduction Nurses Association.
Additional speakers
SDF are also delighted to have three other speakers at the event who will bring a variety of knowledge and experience to the days proceedings.
Dr Joe Tay – GP with a special interest in addictions working as a partner in Sighthill Green Medical Practice and the Lothian Substance Misuse Directorate in Edinburgh.
ACC Steve Johnson – Assistant Chief Constable for Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism and Chair of the Drugs Strategy Group, Police Scotland.
Laura Kerr – Lead Officer, Alcohol and Drugs (Tayside), Angus Alcohol and Drugs Partnership.
Family n friends get together to raise money and laughs for the cause of N.O.A.D