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August 24, 2009:
1st Annual Highland Recovery Walk - 26 September 2009
The Minister for Community Safety, Fergus Ewing, is delighted to support this, the first Annual Highland Recovery Walk on 26 September 2009. He praises the organisers for their creative thinking on bringing the community together to help change and inform attitudes on recovery from drug dependency.
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July 30, 2009:
Turning Point Scotland
The Scottish Government has asked Turning Point Scotland to facilitate vital initial steps in pulling together the Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium.
These key steps include exploring the legal and procedural aspects of setting up the Consortium as a Charitable Trust.
Turning Point has also begun to contact a number of prospective Consortium partners, both large and small, in order to establish their interest in being a part of the consortium.
In addition, an open advertisement in the press and via other recognised channels will ask for expressions of interest in becoming a Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium Partner.
Subsequent to both these developments, a meeting involving all prospective partners is being planned for sometime in August.
In the meantime, we'd like to thank all of you who have shared your thoughts to date on the development of the Scottish Drug Recovery Consortium, many of you having of course participated in the series of discussion groups we held at the end of last year. It is encouraging that there is so much positive activity and comment around this development from the recovery community and stakeholders more widely across the country.
We can understand that the community are keen to see progress happen quickly. In order that there can the widest possible engagement with the recovery community and particularly those in recovery themselves, it is important that setting up the Consortium is a transparent and inclusive process, and we both need and value everyone's contribution in making this happen.
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June 5, 2009:
First Anniversary of the Publication of Scotland's Drugs Strategy
Scotland's national drugs strategy "The Road to Recovery" was published just over one year ago (Friday 29 May 2008). The Minister for Community Safety, Mr Ewing, marked this event by meeting service users and project workers at Edinburgh's Simpson House, which offers specialist counselling for people affected by their own or another's drug use. On 1 June, a reception was held at Edinburgh Castle for those who have helped to implement the strategy, including people in recovery from addiction.
The Minister also published a progress report, One Year On, setting out some of the key steps taken by the Scottish Government and other agencies to help deliver the strategy's objectives - through education and prevention to enforcement and improved access to treatment and other services.