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The Aberdeen City Alcohol and Drugs Partnership (ADP) E-Update Welcome to the Aberdeen City Alcohol and Drugs Partnership (ADP) E-Update: www.aberdeencityadp.org.uk ISSUE: DATE: 9th February 2018 * FEATURE * LATEST NEWS * EVENTS * TRAINING * VACANCIES * RESOURCES & PUBLICATIONS * INTRODUCTION If you have any items you wish to be included in the E-update please contact us. Your feedback is also very important - if you wish to make any comments about the E-update please contact us at [email protected] Wherever possible we will incorporate all aspects to enhance the effectiveness of this E-update. Should you wish to be removed from our circulation list please contact us as above. Aberdeen City ADP on & for daily updates and local/national news concerning alcohol & drug related topics 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.
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