Mental Health and Substance Use: Putting Evidence Into Practice

This event will focus on Scotland’s ambitions for improving the lives of people with co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns, looking at putting evidence into practice.

On the day we will be joined by:

• Professor Thomas Phillips, Professor of Nursing in Addiction and Director, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Research
• Julia Martineau, Programme Manager, Dundee HSCP
• Rajendra Raman, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, NHS Fife
• Jane Grassie, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Kirkcaldy Fife
• Beata Ciesluk, Doctoral Researcher, PhD Student, University of West of Scotland
• Iain Smith, Consultant Psychiatrist, Substance Use Service, NHS Forth Valley
• Dr Carey Lunan, GP Chair of the Scottish Deep End Project
• Katy MacLeod, Research and Peer Engagement Programme Manager, Scottish Drugs Forum
• Tracey McFall, Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Recovery Consortium

We are keen to gather a wide range of experience and knowledge, and to assist this we will be running breakout sessions covering the following topics:

· Breakout A: Stigma, staff wellbeing and trauma-informed practice.

· Breakout B: Responding to Scotland’s changing drug landscape

· Breakout C: Where do people with mental health and substance use concerns present, and what happens to them?

Coffee/tea will be available starting at 9:30 AM and presentations will begin at 9:50 am. Lunch will be served at 1:00 PM.

Please email [email protected] if travel costs are a barrier to attending.

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