DrugScope closing due to financial difficulties

DrugScope is closing on 31st March 2015 due to financial constraints, which is a huge blow to workers and practitioners within the health and well-being sector.

Here at Fast Forward we will miss its daily roundups of drug-related news and remember it with fondness. The bulletins, which will come to an end within the next few weeks, were an interesting and efficient way for us as youth work practitioners to keep up to date with developments in the substance misuse field.

In a press release, Edwin Richards, Chair of Drugscope said:

It is with a heavy heart that the Board has taken this extremely difficult decision. We are grateful to all of DrugScope’s staff for their hard work, skill and commitment. I am saddened for DrugScope members whose support for the organisation has been at the heart of its work and governance. The focus going forward is on ensuring that the mission is carried on by other means.

To read the full press release on the DrugScope website, click here.