Peter Furlong’s Topic
Peter spoke about his observations over the last couple of decades around harm reduction development and the lack of attention over the last 10 years the UK in certain areas/aspects. How the current re-focus and re-investment is an opportunity to regenerate harm reduction as a core ethos across all drug and alcohol treatment services.
Peter Furlong is the National Harm Reduction lead for Change Grow Live and has been working in Drug services since the late 1990s. Starting as a volunteer in Merseyside, then working across a range of frontline roles including outreach, needle and syringe exchange, drug worker, services manager and North West regional development lead.
He was instrumental in pioneering the development of take-home naloxone in Sefton in 2010, one of the first services in the country to pilot its first provision as a core intervention also leading the introduction of nasal naloxone (nyxoid) for CGL services in 2019 which was independently evaluated by the University of Manchester (2020).
Peter Furlong’s Topic
Peter spoke about his observations over the last couple of decades around harm reduction development and the lack of attention over the last 10 years the UK in certain areas/aspects. How the current re-focus and re-investment is an opportunity to regenerate harm reduction as a core ethos across all drug and alcohol treatment services.
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