There is not one solution but many to turning the tide on drug deaths and this evidence paper focuses on one tool - Safer Drug Consumption Facilities - and the evidence is they help to save and improve lives by preventing overdose and connecting people to other services

Big shout out to our Scottish Ambulance colleagues who assisted us today. Patient treated with care, compassion and dignity. Fantastic example to paramedic student who was with you. Love joined up working.

Equality & diversity are the NHS values that make me most proud to work for the service & at last night’s #ScotHealthAwards it was incredible to see public appetite for tackling health inequalities! Huge congratulations to all winners!

How to… stop the cat from standing on your laptop and sending half written email responses 😂 Money well spent. #workingfromhome #CatsOfTwitter

Remember you can ask our Scottish Ambulance crew for Naloxone. Other services will close over the festive period but we do not #ASKUSFORNALOXONE Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce

This festive season, while some services may be closed, you can ask our ambulance crews to provide Take Home Naloxone kits, which reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. Together we can prevent drugs deaths 💙

Magnus apparently doesn’t find drug harm reduction research as riveting as I do. He’s getting Naloxone trained when he wakes up… no snoozing on drug harm reduction on my watch!! 😂

Always incredibly proud to have @_Thomas_V999 as my colleague… a true advocate for minimising stigma in access to mental health care & treatment. Your contribution is so powerful across a number of stigma & equality driven health issues. Thank you. #TimeToTalkDay

Honour for Scottish Ambulance to support our Scottish Fire and Rescue Service colleagues with their carriage of naloxone. Here’s to the future of a consistent emergency service response to reduce drug related deaths Police Scotland @AConstanceSNP Nicola Sturgeon Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce @SDFnews @cuppawithK

Today GCU Emergency Care Society supported a collaborative learning piece from Scottish Ambulance Simon Community Scotland & Turning Point Scotland Allowing us to introduce trauma-informed considerations in overdose response & the importance of partnership working to best support people who use drugs.

Collaborative education allowed us to enhance learning with knowledge from health, social care and lived experience perspectives. Thanks also to @SDFnews Ethypharm and @SuzanneSFAD for providing training resources. Together… we can harness the knowledge to tackle drug deaths.

It’s a privilege for the SAS Drug Harm Reduction Leads to be invited into these forums & we hope to contribute to the ongoing empowerment of the voices of those with lived & living experience of drug use. We can transform service provision if we listen to the real experts Darcy A Scottish Ambulance

If your car isn’t packed with 50% drug harms education tools and 50% food, you are not doing Scottish Ambulance station education events properly 😂 If you’re a crew near VOL tonight, come share some cakes and chat with myself and our colleagues from Overdose Response Team (ORT)

The unique reach of Scottish Ambulance lets us support PWUD 24/7. People are NOT hard to reach. Collaborative education offers insights on holistic assessment, compassion & the central role of relationships in supporting those at risk of overdose to access support. Overdose Response Team (ORT)

People who use drugs are not hard to reach. Scottish Ambulance clinicians play a vital role supporting vulnerable people to access help and support. Tune in tonight to see Darren McGarvey experience the compassion of our ambulance crew on the front line #dmaddictions

Sharing learning on responding to overdose is a key role of SAS Drug Harm Reduction Leads Love to see feedback about how workshops boost community resilience & save lives. Looking forward to replicating this with UWS BSc Paramedic Science in the near future! @julesmccartney Scottish Ambulance Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce

We are very much looking forward to presenting at todays @SDFnews webinar, register to get your place if you havent already 👇. See you at 1pm 😀

Looking forward to this discussion with UK ambulance services this morning about the wider emergency service contribution to reducing inequalities. I’ll be representing Scottish Ambulance & showing how we have been reaching the individuals wrongly branded as “hard-to-reach”

Brilliant piece of partnership working 👏 Scottish Ambulance @SuzanneSFAD @julesmccartney