The rapidly changing patterns of drug use in Scotland

CENTRE FOR POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCES SEMINAR

The rapidly changing patterns of drug use in Scotland:
with particular reference to mortality and cocaine

Speakers:

Professor Roy Robertson
Professor of Addiction Medicine, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh

Roy Robertson is Professor of Addiction Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Centre for Population Health Sciences, and Partner at the Muirhouse Medical Group in Edinburgh where he has been since 1980. He has a special interest in illegal drug use and associated harms including HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and drug related death. He has been a member of UK, European and WHO advisory groups and policy committees for over 30 years. He was a member of the recent Departments of Health Guidelines committee on Management of Drug Misuse (and was a member of the same group in 1990 and 2007).

Dr Andrew McAuley
Principal Healthcare Scientist at Health Protection Scotland and Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow Caledonian University

Andrew has worked locally and nationally in the NHS since 2001, specifically in the addictions field since 2005. He is currently Senior Epidemiologist within the Blood Borne-Virus and Sexually Transmitted Infections team at Health Protection Scotland where he has a lead role for projects involving people who inject drugs (PWID). At GCU, Andrew held an honorary research position with the Substance Use Research team between 2014 and 2017. He took up his current Senior Research Fellow post within the Blood-Borne Virus team in early 2017 following completion of his PhD.
Andrew has a strong track record in public health research, leading and contributing to many high-quality peer-reviewed journal articles.

Lunch will be provided.

(Please note: there may be photography/videography at this event)

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