Room for improvement: Dr Gillian Shorter asks whether it is time to trial and evaluate an official ‘drug consumption room’, following another year of the highest overdose deaths on record

Gillian Shorter

Room for improvement: Dr Gillian Shorter asks whether it is time to trial and evaluate an official ‘drug consumption room’, following another year of the highest overdose deaths on record

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Original language	English
Journal	The Psychologist
Publication status	Published - 07 Dec 2020

Bibliographical note

Open Science - No

Keywords

drug consumption rooms
overdose prevention
overdose prevention site
heroin
opioids
cocaine
drug policy
health psychology

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Shorter, G. (Speaker)
22 Jul 2021
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
The options for a drug consumption room: Characteristics, Service Models, and the Belfast context (National Conference; Belfast, UK)
Shorter, G. (Invited speaker)
09 Apr 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference

(National) Recovery Island Discs: Build on Belief
Shorter, G.
14/09/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
BBC Evening Extra: Top story on drug consumption rooms
Shorter, G.
23/06/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
BBC Newsline Overdose prevention centres
Shorter, G.
23/06/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment

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Room for improvement: Dr Gillian Shorter asks whether it is time to trial and evaluate an official ‘drug consumption room’, following another year of the highest overdose deaths on record

Bibliographical note

Keywords

Access to Document

Activities

Invited to discuss expertise from evaluating the Glasgow Overdose Prevention site with Police Scotland

The options for a drug consumption room: Characteristics, Service Models, and the Belfast context (National Conference; Belfast, UK)

Press/Media

(National) Recovery Island Discs: Build on Belief

BBC Evening Extra: Top story on drug consumption rooms

BBC Newsline Overdose prevention centres

Cite this