Can joint outreach by NHS and third sector homelessness workers reduce the risk of overdoses/drug deaths for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage?

Drug deaths are increasing among the UK's most disadvantaged citizens (with the highest rates in Scotland) and there are no 'off the shelf' ways to reduce risks. New, generalisable ways to tackle drug deaths are urgently needed.

This webinar will share and discuss the world's first trial involving people facing homelessness alongside criminal activity and substance dependence. Neighbourhood-based health and third sector partnership teams have met and supported people weekly for nine months on outreach in six Scottish settings. The findings include impacts not just on drug use and criminal activity, but also on health, housing and quality of life.

The webinar will be led by:

Richard Lowrie, Reader in Homelessness and Inclusion Health, at the University of Edinburgh.

Booking

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Homelessness series at King's

This webinar, which takes place on MS Teams only, is part of the Homelessness series, organised out of the NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London, by Research Fellow Jess Harris.

The Unit is home to the Homelessness Research Programme at King's College London.

We generally send out the slides following meetings and post them here, but do not record sessions.

Please get in touch with Jess Harris if you would like to join the mailing list for the Homelessness series.