This webinar series brings the powerful calls to action from “Setting the Blueprint for a More Equal and Prosperous Wales for People Who Use Substances” to life — one session at a time.
Each webinar focuses on a specific “ask” from the Blueprint, offering space to explore what it means in practice, why it matters, and how we can all play a part in making it real. From amplifying lived experience to embedding harm reduction, this is an opportunity for frontline workers, policymakers, advocates, and community members to come together, learn, and collaborate.
Let’s move beyond words and into action — together.
Our webinars will be free to attend and you can sign up to the respective session via the dedicated tab below. You will also be able to view previous webinars on our YouTube channel, or listen to them on the go via our podcast ‘Drugs Unwrapped’, available where ever you get your podcasts from.
CLICK here to register for our next webinar on Tuesday 27th January 2026
#8 Community Drug Checking
Tuesday 27th January 2026 – 14.00pm
Our 8th webinar within our Manifesto Sessions webinar series will focus on community drug checking services. As part of our ‘Setting the blueprint for a more equal and prosperous Wales for people who use substances’, we want community drug checking services to be part and parcel of harm reduction interventions across Wales. Drug checking services allow people to get their substances tested, often by voluntarily dropping off their sample without fear of arrest, and subsequently provides individuals with information of the content of their substances, as well as tailored harm reduction advice and often, brief interventions.
The need for community-based services is as significant as ever, given the threats posed by dangerous and toxic substances, most notably synthetic opioids, emerging within the illegal drugs market. Community-based services, by being situated within current treatment services, can give timely information regarding the contents of the samples tested, as well as provide a human touch by having face to face harm reduction discussions and opening the door for people to access treatment, if required.
Our speakers are:
Gavin Jones
(Head of Operations, Gwent Drug and Alcohol Service)
More speakers to be announced soon.
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#9 Enhanced Harm Reduction Centres and Memorandums of Understanding
Tuesday 17th February 2026 – 12.00pm
Our 9th webinar within our Manifesto Sessions webinar series will focus on Enhanced Harm Reduction Centres (EHRCs). As part of our ‘Setting the blueprint for a more equal and prosperous Wales for people who use substances’, we want to establish memorandums of understanding to enable the implementation of EHRCs in Wales. Also known as Overdose Prevention Centres, Safer Injecting Facilities and Drug Consumption Rooms, EHRCs have long been part of effective, evidenced-based harm reduction responses to health-related matters due to substance use, and over 120 facilitates are currently operational worldwide.
Establishing and operating EHRCs would be subject to the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) 1971, which means that to legalise their establishment and operation, a working agreement must be drawn up with law enforcement, such as MOUs with each police force in Wales. This would guarantee that those operating the facility would not face legal challenge or be prosecuted. People in possession of illegal drugs at the facility or surrounding area would also not be arrested and / or punished.
Our speakers are:
Dr Saket Priyadarshi
(Associate Medical Director in Greater Glasgow and Clyde alcohol and drug services)
Dr Saket Priyadarshi is the Associate Medical Director in Greater Glasgow and Clyde alcohol and drug services. He is responsible for the professional leadership of medical staff and clinical governance in Alcohol and Drugs Recovery Services in the largest health board in Scotland. He has led on a number of service developments in Glasgow, including Scotland’s first Heroin Assisted Treatment service and the Safer Drug Consumption Facility, which opened in early 2025.
He is a graduate of the University of Glasgow medical school and qualified as a General Practitioner in 2003. Through working in deprived areas in the west of Scotland, he developed an interest in the management of substance misuse problems.
Saket is a member of the Glasgow city Alcohol Drug Partnership. Saket has been a member of various Scottish Government advisory committees in relation to drug policy and has worked with the European Monitoring Committee on Drugs and Drugs Addiction.
He is involved in research and holds Honorary positions at Glasgow Caledonian University and University of Glasgow.
More speakers to be announced soon
You can watch all previous webinars via our YouTube channel, or below, or listen to them via our Drugs Unwrapped podcast, where ever you get your podcasts from.
Webinar 1 – Why language is important
Webinar 2 – Family and concerned others
Webinar 3 – Drug Overdose Good Samaritan Act
Webinar 4 – Safer Inhalation Devices
Webinar 5 – Trauma-Informed Practice
Webinar 6 – Young People at the heart of service design and delivery
Webinar 7 – Equality Act alcohol exclusion clause
