‘These are our people’: How a street-based therapy service is tackling San Francisco’s drugs crisis
The Ferret visits the Harm Reduction Therapy Center in San Francisco, a psychotherapy service that offers an open-door policy to people using drugs.
How prescribing safe supply is helping drug users in Canada turn their lives around
The Ferret visits Vancouver, Canada, to find out how safe supply prescriptions are transforming lives in local communities.
Sheku Bayoh: The Inquiry podcast – Matters of the heart
Episode six of our Sheku Bayoh: The Inquiry podcast looks at evidence from the post-mortem and hears what expert witnesses found about the cause of his death.
Matters of the heart
The Ferret looks back on hearing three of the Sheku Bayoh Inquiry, which tried to get to the heart of what caused his death.
‘More than numbers to us’: how a homeless project is preventing Scottish drug deaths
Drug deaths in Scotland have fallen for the first time in almost a decade. But those using drugs in Glasgow City Centre – and across Scotland – need more support to make sure they not only survive, but thrive.
‘It’s like getting in a time machine’: homeless agencies warn of rise in rough sleeping
Rough sleeping in Scotland’s largest city has escalated dramatically in recent weeks.
Second Scots NHS board considers prescribing heroin as drug treatment
NHS Tayside is considering offering heroin on prescription to drug users following an evaluation of a “successfully implemented” Glasgow-based pilot.
Drug consumption rooms and better drug treatment are ‘necessary’ to save lives, says study
Scotland must offer drug users better treatment, access to drug consumption rooms and safer supply initiatives in order to save lives, new study claims.
Violent assaults increasing at Scotland’s troubled private prison
Violent assaults have been rising more steeply at HMP Addiewell – Scotland’s troubled private prison – than any other jail last year.
