In recent months, we have been particularly concerned by the changes we have seen to the drug market across the country.

At Cranstoun, we work with people who use drugs right across the UK and continue to look at new ways to innovate and improve the services we offer.

With the increase of ‘nitazenes’, particularly into the heroin supply, there has been an increase in fatal and non-fatal overdoses in areas right across the UK.

We have produced this document to provide detail on the current situation, the responses that we have already been working on, within Cranstoun, but also working with partners across the sector. Furthermore, in this document you will find details of key missions that we urge policy makers to look at urgently to ensure that we can curb these overdoses and the impact of these potent, synthetic opioids.