Conference Video

This video with presentations from the conference is 3 hours in length.
To watch an individual presentation or speaker please use the time points below, or open the video in YouTube and use the time point chapters listed in the description.

•   0:00 Welcome and agenda
•  03:30 Professor Mark Bellis
•  08:20 Mark Whitfield
•  13:02 Dame Carol Black
•  38:25 Steve Taylor
• 1:00:00 Superintendent Jane Bailey
• 1:22:00 Session 1 Q&A
• 1:37:40 Dr Anne Campbell
• 1:59:02 Professor Rick Lines
• 2:17:18 Danny Ahmed
• 2:46:32 Session 2 Q&A
• 3:07:30 End credits

Please note that this recording only includes the morning of the conference (sessions 1 & 2), sadly Teams didn't record the afternoon but all the presentations are available on this page, and if you have any specific questions we can put you in touch with the speaker/s.

Jane Bailey: West Mids Police Naloxone - Video

Daniel Ahmed: Welcome to Foundations - Video

Daniel Ahmed: Hope for the future - Audio

Daniel Ahmed: Julie's story - Audio

South East ambulance service information sharing protocols

Shared by: Satinder Kang, West Kent Drug & Alcohol Wellbeing Service, Change Grow Live

This is an example of the Southeast information sharing protocols it is a fantastic way of monitoring risk around service users. Staff who sign up with their local ambulance services will have training provided on how to use the system. Then staff after discussion at their local clinical/MDT meetings can add high risk clients such as; recent prison releases, pregnant clients, young people, severe mental health/high risk suicide clients, severe physical health clients, homeless clients, high risk injecting clients etc to this system. If these clients call for an ambulance the service is notified of why they have called for an ambulance, where they have been conveyed to so that we can directly liaise with the appropriate hospital to confirm any OST medication they are on, and any risks associated with them. Helps us to safeguard and manage safety etc.

Analysis of deaths following methadone and buprenorphine use

Link shared by: Caroline Copeland, King's College London

Methadone and buprenorphine-related deaths among people prescribed and not prescribed Opioid Agonist Therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic in England.

The English Substance User Commissioners Group

Link shared by: Angela Hall, North Yorkshire County Council

We're in the process of uploading a range of case studies on expansion of Naloxone (across a range of settings) on the English Substance Use Commissioners Group, Preventing Drug and Alcohol Related Deaths Sub-Group page - they're not all uploaded yet, but will include an overview, and details of who to contact for more details:

From harm to hope: 10 year drugs plan - Guidance for local delivery partners

Link shared by: Angela Hall, North Yorkshire County Council

Guidance for local delivery partners - Page 5 of the attached provides the case definition for the reducing DRDs by 1000

Painkiller Addition Information Network (PAIN)

Link shared by: Yasir Abbasi, Westminister Drugs Project

Website with resources relating to opioid pain medication dependence

Substance use and palliative care

Link shared by: Sam Wright, Manchester Metropolitan University

Website with resources and guidance for end-of-live care

ScotPHI Profiles tool

Link shared by: David Macdonald, Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership

Scottish Public Health Observatory indicators of public health tool

Drug overdose detection sensors

News story shared by: John Corkey, University of Hertfordshire

'Life-saving' drug overdose detection sensors coming to Nanaimo hospital washrooms

Changing Mortality

Link shared by: Jim McVeigh, Manchester Metropolitan University

Older and sicker: Changing mortality of drug users in treatment in the North West of England

Australian stigma programme

Link shared by: Harry Sumnall, Liverpool John Moores University

Centre for Social Research in Health - The Stigma Research Stream documents and monitors the experiences and expression of stigma and discrimination...

Naloxone evaluation survey

Link shared by: Harry Sumnall, Liverpool John Moores University

West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Nasal Naloxone Pilot Evaluation

Police Scotland Naloxone evaluation survey

Link shared by: Maggie Page, Scottish Drug Strategy Unit

Evaluation of the police carriage of naloxone pilot in Scotland can be found here

Naloxone administered by Police Scotland officers

News item shared by: Maggie Page, Scottish Drug Strategy Unit

Naloxone has now been administered at more than 100 incidents by Police Scotland officers as the national roll-out of the opioid reversal nasal spray continues.

Seasonal, weekly and other cyclical patterns in deaths due to drug poisoning in England and Wales

Link shared by: Harry Sumnall, Liverpool John Moores University

A recent study from Dan Lewer and colleagues suggested seasonality with respect to MDMA/cocaine use (i.e. peak at New Year), but not opioids. Deaths peaked in Spring but they didn't know why. Interestingly no increase in deaths in the first week of the month, when people might be receiving their benefit payments.

Over 300,000 ‘excess’ deaths attributed to UK government austerity measures

Link shared by: Wayne Gault, NHS Grampian

Glasgow Centre for Population Health, news story and report

Suspected drug deaths in Scotland - Quarterly Report

Link shared by: David Macdonald, Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership

Figures for Scotland: There were 1,092 suspected drug deaths between January and December 2022. This was 16% (203) fewer than during the same period of 2021 (1,295).

Alcohol Related Brain Injury Unit (ARBI)

Link shared by: Katie Harrison, Extern

Leonard Cheshire have an ARBI unit in NI and follow up outreach support.

Budget reductions and increases in drug related death

Link shared by: Wayne Gault, NHS Grampian

Association between disability-related budget reductions and increasing drug-related mortality across local authorities in Great Britain.

Opioid abuse and austerity

Link shared by: Wayne Gault, NHS Grampian

Opioid abuse and austerity: Evidence on health service use and mortality in England.

Daniel Ahmed: Why I set up a Heroin Assisted Treatment clinic

Daniel Ahmed was the pioneer who set up a Heroin Assisted Treatment clinic in Middlesbrough. In this short film from Transform Daniel explains a bit more about this treatment, why he was keen to introduce it, how he went about getting the clinic set up and the impact of this initiative on the local area.

The Heroin Assisted Treatment programme in Middlesbrough came to an end in December 2022 due to a lack of continued funding.

The Black Review - with Professor Nutt and Dame Carol Black

In 2019 Professor Dame Carol Black was appointed to lead a major 2-part review that looked into the relationship between drugs and violence but also treatment, recovery and prevention of drug addictions.

Listen to this Drug Science Podcast to hear the perspective of a dedicated physician but also a government advisor on the approach to both treatment and social implications of drug addictions.