Welcome to the Aberdeen City Alcohol and Drugs Partnership (ADP) E-Update:
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ISSUE: DATE: 9th February 2018
* FEATURE * LATEST NEWS * EVENTS * TRAINING * VACANCIES * RESOURCES & PUBLICATIONS *
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FEATURE
Universal Credit Briefing Sessions
From October, the way people access state benefits in Aberdeen will be changing, with the rollout of Universal Credit. Universal Credit is a single monthly payment for people in or out of work. It replaces:
Housing benefit Child Tax Credit Income support Working Tax Credit Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance & Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
This change will have a significant impact on many people living locally, and in order to help your staff support clients who may be affected, the Aberdeen City Financial Inclusion & DWP team are offering short briefing sessions to staff to give them the information they need to give practical advice and support. To arrange a briefing session for your team / staff, please contact Angela Kazmierczak on [email protected] / 01224 346470
Carers Strategy - Consultation
As you may be aware the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 will be implemented as of 1st April 2018. Each local authority area is required to develop and publish a local Carers Strategy.
You can find links below for the following documents:
1. Draft Carers strategy for Aberdeen City for consultation which the Integration Joint Board approved at its December meeting 2. Draft Carers Strategy Summary & Questions: an "at a glance” version key elements of the strategy including questions to help you think about your response 3. Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 summary, which tells you all you need to know about the new act.
Please encourage as many people as possible to give their views by returning any comments or suggestions to Alison MacLeod (Lead Strategy and Performance Manager, Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership) via email on [email protected]
The deadline for response is Friday 23rd February 2018
Consultation Documents:
Carer's Strategy - Consultation Draft.pdf
Aberdeen City Carers Strategy - Summary for Consultation.pdf
Carers Scotland Act 2016 Summary.pdf
LATEST NEWS
Alcohol causes 3,700 deaths in Scotland every year
New report shows truer picture of alcohol's contribution to ill health in Scotland. Analysis has revealed the extent to which alcohol contributes to ill health and admissions to hospital in Scotland. The report by NHS Health Scotland shows that, alongside conditions commonly associated with alcohol consumption, such as liver disease, alcohol also has an important role in injuries and the development of other conditions, such as cancer and strokes. NHS Health Scotland looked at the number of deaths and hospital admissions caused by alcohol consumption in 2015. The study also looked at what it was that people were dying from or alcohol-related conditions that made them ill. The analysis found that alcohol contributed to 3705 deaths, and that more of these deaths were from cancer than liver disease. Furthermore it showed that 41,161 people were admitted to hospital as a result of alcohol consumption in the same year, and that 1 in 4 of these admissions was due to unintentional injury.
Burden of Disease Attributable to Alchol Consumption in Scotland (pdf)
Briefing on NHS Health Scotland report (pdf) Alison Douglas, Chief Executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, said: “This research shows that alcohol causes around 1 in 15 deaths in Scotland. These deaths can be from falls, road traffic accidents and alcohol poisoning, as a result of one bout of drinking. Others, such as mental illness, stroke and cancer, are likely to be the result of drinking over longer periods. It's not just 'alcoholics' who suffer - we need to stop kidding ourselves it's someone else's problem. "Minimum unit pricing will save lives and is a strong start to turning this around. But we all have a right to information which enables us to make healthier choices. That's why mandatory labelling is essential. "We also need to reduce the exposure of our children to alcohol marketing given the clear evidence that this increases the likelihood they will start to drink and that they will drink more."
http://www.alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/media/295269/nhs-burden-of-disease-report- briefing-feb-18.pdf
Recovery Walk Scotland 2018 will take place in Glasgow on Saturday September 15th 2018. For the first time in Scotland, the recovery from addiction movement and the mental health recovery movement will hold a joint recovery walk.
Recovery Walk Scotland is the largest recovery event in Scotland and has been held every year since 2013. The event is compromised of three parts: Roses in the River Memorial at Glasgow Green, Recovery Walk Scotland procession thorugh the city centre and a Recovery Festival and Village on The Green.
Recovery Walk Scotland is supported by many hundreds of organisations and communitiy groups. Last year 2000 people took part in Recovery Walk Scotland in Dundee. Watch the film below.
Scotland’s prisons support the walk by hosting recovery walks within Scotland’s jails the day before. Last year 12 out of 15 of Scotland’s prisons held a recovery walk with a total of 550 prisoners and staff in attendance.
Kuladharini, Chief Executive of the Scottish Recovery Consortium said, "What unites the addiction and mental health recovery movements is much greater than any details that may divide us. It has long been evident to us in the addiction recovery movement that we are on the same journey as our brothers and sisters in recovery from mental distress. Our collective distress expressed in mental distress, addiction, obesity, smoking and violence have many of the same roots. Its is time we make common cause - Recovery Walk Scotland is a perfect vehicle for us to know and love each other better."
The Scottish Recovery Consortium that founded the Scottish event in 2013 after the experience of co-hosting the UK recovery walk in Glasgow in 2010. Recovery Walk Scotland is now organised and led by a council of Recovery activists from all over the country and the host city. The SRC provides full staff support the Recovery Walk Scotland council.
Follow Recovery Walk Scotland on: Twitter - @RecWalkScot Instagram @RecWalkScot Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Recovery-Walk-Scotland-2066403073590721/
A network of five research institutes across four countries has been successful in winning the right to carry out a major piece of research into addiction recovery. This research is funded by the European Research Area Network on Illicit Drugs (ERANID). The research institutes that will be carrying out this piece of research are as follows: Sheffield Hallam University, UK (David Best); Ghent University, Belgium (Wouter Vanderplasschen); IVO, The Netherlands (Dike van de Mheen); University of Manchester, UK (Tim Millar); & University College Ghent, Belgium (Jessica De Maeyer)
This survey, the Life in Recovery Survey (LiR), is the first part of a wider research study, called Recovery Pathways or REC-PATH. The study will enable researchers in four countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Scotland and England) to identify different successful recovery pathways.
A group of participants will be selected by the research teams and asked if they will participate in the second and third parts of the wider study. Following this group of participants over a 12 month period, the study aims to track changes in recovery; friendship and kinship groups; and social circumstances. By investigating these changes over time, we hope to better understand which recovery pathways work best for whom, when and where in a person’s recovery journey. This is vital in order to better inform drug and recovery orientated policy.
The survey will gather information primarily from people in England, Scotland, Belgium and the Netherlands. This survey should take no longer than 20 minutes, and needs to be completed in one sitting as there is no save function.
http://www.rec-path.co.uk/
https://shusls.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4N6aFcWZPGTL5vn
EVENTS
Cafe MED: The bottle and the baby's brain
Date Mon, 12/03/2018 - 6:00 pm - Mon, 12/03/2018 - 7:30 pm
Details Join us for this informal talk bringing together leading bio-science researchers and clinicians. Speakers: Professor Peter McCaffery (Chair in Developmental Biology) and Dr Justin Williams (Senior Clinical Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry), University of Aberdeen. Around 500 babies are born with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) every year in Scotland. Women are advised to avoid all alcohol during pregnancy but do we know how much alcohol can harm the foetus? We will discuss many of the questions around this controversial topic. FREE, no booking required. This is part of the Cafe Med series of events in Aberdeen. Download the full programme of Cafe MED talks: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/engage/public/cafe-med-110.php
Venue Suttie Centre Cafe, Foresterhill Health Campus, Aberdeen
Tickets No tickets required, Free event.
Event website Cafe MED series in Aberdeen
Contact details Hosted by: Public Engagement with Research Unit, University of Aberdeen. Venue: Suttie Centre for Teaching and Learning in Healthcare
Contact: [email protected]
Community Justice Scotland presents: Rewriting Scotland’s Story
Fri 9 March 2018 10:30 – 16:00 GMT
Citizens Theatre 119 Gorbals Street Glasgow G5 9DW
We’re excited to announce our very first national event. This year is all about Rewriting Scotland’s Story.
Times are changing in Scotland. We invite you to join the discussion with our world- renowned speakers who will share their own stories and experience about leadership, influence, inequality, smart justice and our future.
Be part of an inspirational day which welcomes people from all over Scotland who are involved in community justice, and have bright ideas and a passion for change. Speakers include Darren Loki McGarvey, Roza Salih, Professor Jason Leitch, Byron Vincent, Professor Harry Burns, Karyn McCluskey, Dr Mary Hepburn and more!
Click on the link to find out more https://communityjustice.scot/news/997/
To register for a place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-justice-scotland-presents-rewriting-scotlands- story-tickets-42557076361
Seek, Keep, Treat What does it mean for service provision?
Date: Tuesday 20th March, 10.00-16.00 Location: Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
Scottish Drugs Forum is pleased to host this conference to explore the implications of new Scottish Government strategy on drug treatment.
Early booking is advised £95 SDF members / £120 non-members
Secure your place using the booking form at the bottom of this page.
SDF membership is free – click here to apply
This event should be of interest to policy influencers; those planning, commissioning and delivering drug services and those involved in providing services to people who have a drug problem.
Confirmed speakers include –
Dr John Budd, Edinburgh Access Practice – John chaired the Expert Group on Older Drug Users and is a member of the PADS group advising the Government of drug-related harm
John Hinton, Executive Director, Move On – Move On services include community-based intensive support, group work including employability, personal development and pre-vocational training, mentoring, befriending, volunteering, aftercare, peer education, guidance, advice and information.
Background
In July the Minister, Aileen Campbell, announced that Scotland was to change its approach to treatment by adopting a ‘seek, keep and treat’ approach.
This approach will address issues identified most recently in Scottish Drugs Forum’s work on reducing drug-related deaths and on the needs of older people with a drug problem. The approach has the potential to improve Scotland’s response to problem drug use by: Undertaking outreach to encourage greater service uptake Improving access to specialist help and in particular swift access to treatment Increasing retention rates to ensure that people stay in the service for as long as they need it Building and enhancing therapeutic relationships and encouraging fuller engagement with wider treatment Enable specialist treatment services to take a wider view of service user needs including physical and mental health Promote and facilitate improved joint work with mainstream health and support services including housing, employability and welfare rights
The potential benefits are a reduction in people leaving and re-entering treatment; less crisis- based intervention; reduced use of emergency and acute services; fewer hospital admissions; breaking the links between problem drug use and homelessness and between mental health and problem drug use.
This is an interesting new approach and the evidence, best practice and practical implications will be explored at this conference.
Booking Details: http://www.sdf.org.uk/event/new-treatment-strategy-seek-keep-treat-mean-service- provision/
Hi folks, Our next FREE showing will be ‘Black Swan’ (15), Monday 26th March, 5pm to 8pm in room N242 of the Sir Ian Wood Building at RGU, Garthdee Campus. As ever, staff, students and the general public are all welcome. There is free parking from 4pm, with First Bus Service numbers 1 and 2 stopping directly outside. Refreshments will be free of charge and available throughout, and facilitated discussion around mental health will follow.
17:00: Reception. Doors open with tea, coffee, juice and water available. 17.30: Film start 18.30: Intermission with Papa John’s pizza and Subway Sandwiches provided. Film end: Facilitated discussion around mental health
A description of the film can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/
Many thanks Dan Warrender and Scott Macpherson Lecturers in Mental Health
Find out more about Mental Health Movie Monthly
SHAAP/SARN Alcohol Occasionals – 2018
Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) are pleased to organise the lunchtime 'Alcohol Occasional' seminars. These showcase innovative research on alcohol use and provide the chance for researchers, practitioners and policy makers and members of the public to hear and discuss alcohol related topics, over lunch in the historic Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh at 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh. 2018 programme: The talks will focus specifically on Alcohol and Social Justice in the next session. The programme and dates are now confirmed:
12th March 2018 - ‘Alcohol harm reduction through a social justice lens: lessons from Canada’, Dr Bernie Pauly, Centre for Addictions Research of BC, Victoria, Canada
23rd April 2018 - Accounting for harms; the role of qualitative sociology in social justice approaches to alcohol and suicide, Dr Amy Chandler, University of Edinburgh
28th May 2018 - ‘Drunk and doubly deviant? Gender, intoxication and assault’, Dr Carly Lightowlers, University of Liverpool
These events are popular and places are limited. Please confirm if you would like to attend. To register via EventBrite, please click on the title of the event/s (above) that you wish to attend.
TRAINING
In partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Project NEPTUNE has developed training modules that are accessible and easy to use for busy front-line clinicians and other practitioners. These e-learning modules are developed based on the principles used by the College to develop Continuous Professional Development (CPD). They include multi-media and interactive elements and are open access (free of charge).
To access the modules use the login. http://neptune-clinical-guidance.co.uk/e-learning/ If you do not have a login simply register for a free login.
Module 1: An introduction to club drugs and novel psychoactive substances Module ID:23690 This module provides a general introduction to club drugs and novel psychoactive substances (NPS), which are now established as part of the changing patterns of drug use in the UK. Authors: Dr Dima Abdulrahim, Dr Owen Bowden Jones and Dr Fredrik Johansson
Module 2: Acute harms and management of depressants (club drugs and novel psychoactive substances) Module ID:24914 This module is aimed at clinicians who are likely to come into contact with people presenting to hospital with acute harms resulting from the use of depressant novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and club drugs. Authors: Dr Dima Abdulrahim, Dr David Wood, Dr Sarah Finlay and Dr Owen Bowden-Jones
Module 3: Acute harms and management of stimulants (club drugs and novel psychoactive substances) Module ID:25018 This module is aimed at clinicians who are likely to come into contact with people presenting to hospital with acute harms resulting from the use of stimulant novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and club drugs. Authors: Dr Dima Abdulrahim, Dr David Wood, Dr Sarah Finlay and Dr Owen Bowden-Jones
Module 4: Acute harms and management of Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists and new hallucinogens Module ID:25144 This module is aimed at clinicians who are likely to come into contact with people presenting to hospital with acute harms resulting from the use of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and club drugs. Authors: Dr Dima Abdulrahim, Dr David Wood, Dr Sarah Finlay and Dr Owen Bowden-Jones
Module 5: Chronic harms and management of depressants (club drugs and novel psychoactive substances) Module ID:25296 This module is aimed at clinicians who are likely to come into contact with people presenting to treatment with chronic harms resulting from the use of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and club drugs. Authors: Dr Dima Abdulrahim and Dr Owen Bowden-Jones
Module 6: Chronic harms and management of stimulants (club drugs and novel psychoactive substances) Module ID:25481 This module is aimed at clinicians who are likely to come into contact with people presenting to treatment with chronic harms resulting from the long-trem and frequent use of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and club drugs. Authors: Dr Dima Abdulrahim and Dr Owen Bowden-Jones
Module 7: Chronic harms and management of Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists and new hallucinogens Module ID:26197 This module is aimed at clinicians who are likely to come into contact with people presenting to hospital with chronic harms resulting from the use of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and club drugs. Authors: Dr Dima Abdulrahim and Dr Owen Bowden-Jones
http://neptune-clinical-guidance.co.uk/e-learning/
VACANCIES
Interested in a new career development?
Are you interested in learning and practice improvement?
Do you have some professional experience in child protection?
Aberdeen City Child Protection Committee are looking to recruit someone to a one year fixed term post, or secondment, to
Set up and deliver core child protection training to multi agency professionals in Aberdeen City
Commission other learning and development programmes to meet our local needs
Co-ordinate any Significant Case Reviews in our area and make sure we learn from them
This post will be advertised at myjobscotland from 30 January 2018 with interviews being held on 23 February 2018.
Details can also be found in the job profile.
RESOURCES & PUBLICATIONS
Resilient Communities Report
This piece of work was commissioned by Champs (the Cheshire & Merseyside Public Health collaborative). The aim is to identify and describe different models/ approaches to developing resilient communities and to assess their effectiveness.
The approaches identified are summarised in the report. The full report also includes a comprehensive selection of case studies and a set of recommendations. A literature review was carried out, with searches of various databases, grey literature and information obtained via peer review and from stakeholders. The literature review confirmed that the wider impacts of approaches to building community resilience are difficult to measure and evidence is limited. However, the available evidence is broadly supportive of the potential of such approaches to achieve wider outcomes
https://phi.ljmu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Resilient-Communities-Full-Report.pdf
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care has commissioned Public Health England (PHE) to review the evidence for dependence on, and withdrawal from, prescribed medicines. Withdrawal is more accurately defined as discontinuation syndrome in relation to anti-depressants. The review was launched on 24 January 2018 and is due to report in early 2019. PHE will carry out a public-health focused review of commonly prescribed medicines, authorised for adults who have non-cancer pain, anxiety, insomnia or depression. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prescribed-medicines-that-may-cause-dependence- or-withdrawal
People Powered Recovery:
People with a dual diagnosis frequently struggle to get the support they need with a range of issues because, too often, services are designed around the needs of the system rather than the individual. This report includes lots of fantastic examples of people drawing on their own lived experience to support others and of services recognising the valuable role people with lived experience can play in ensuring services are designed around people’s needs.
http://www.turning-point.co.uk/media/1282974/people_powered_recovery_- _complex_needs_and_social_action_-_jan_18.pdf
The Aberdeen City Alcohol & Drugs Partnership (ADP) is a multi-agency partnership which was formed in 2009 following the publication of the Scottish Government / COSLA document, 'A Framework For Local Partnerships On Alcohol And Drugs'.