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Community stakeholders’ perceptions of the training, carriage and administration of naloxone by police in Scotland. (HR25) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hillen, P. (2025, April). Community stakeholders’ perceptions of the training, carriage and administration of naloxone by police in Scotland. (HR25). Presented at HR25: Harm Reducution International Conference 2025, Bogota, Columbia

Background

Scotland has been called, “Europe’s drugs deaths capital”. In 2020 in Scotland, drug-related deaths (DRD) were at an all-time high. There were 1,339 DRD, a rate 3.5 times higher than the UK average and the highest in Europe. Of all DRD... Read More about Community stakeholders’ perceptions of the training, carriage and administration of naloxone by police in Scotland. (HR25).

Evaluating the training, carriage and administration of naloxone in Police Scotland. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hillen, P., Speakman, E., Dougall, N., Heyman, I., Murray, J., Jamieson, M., Aston, E., & McAuley, A. (2024, December). Evaluating the training, carriage and administration of naloxone in Police Scotland. Presented at Naloxone in the Justice System, Scottish Health in Custody Network Webinar, Online

Influence social change with your research by building relationships (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Hillen, P., & Heyman, I. (2024). Influence social change with your research by building relationships

Invited submission following recognition at THE awards 2024
Researchers from Edinburgh Napier University needed to form relationships with a range of people when evaluating Police Scotland’s use of the drug naloxone. Here’s how they did it.

Evaluating the training, carriage and administration of naloxone in Police Scotland (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hillen, P., Speakman, E., Dougall, N., Heyman, I., Murray, J., Jamieson, M., Aston, E., & McAuley, A. (2024, September). Evaluating the training, carriage and administration of naloxone in Police Scotland. Presented at Policing, Public Health and Vulnerable People - Scottish Institute of Policing Research, Edinburgh

Police officer knowledge of and attitudes to opioid overdose and naloxone administration: an evaluation of police training in Scotland (2024)
Journal Article
Hillen, P., Speakman, E. M., Jamieson, M., Dougall, N., Heyman, I., Murray, J., Aston, E. V., & McAuley, A. (2025). Police officer knowledge of and attitudes to opioid overdose and naloxone administration: an evaluation of police training in Scotland. Policing and Society, 35(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2024.2367142

In the context of escalating drug-related deaths, during 2021 Police Scotland implemented a pilot project incorporating naloxone training to test the carriage and administration of naloxone by officers. The current paper presents data from the evalua... Read More about Police officer knowledge of and attitudes to opioid overdose and naloxone administration: an evaluation of police training in Scotland.

Police officer’s perspectives of people who use drugs: compassion or stigma? Evidence from an evaluation of Police Scotland’s naloxone pilot (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hillen, P., Heyman, I., Dougall, N., Murray, J., Aston, E., Jamieson, M., Speakman, E., & McAuley, A. (2024, March). Police officer’s perspectives of people who use drugs: compassion or stigma? Evidence from an evaluation of Police Scotland’s naloxone pilot. Presented at Drugs Research Network Webinar: ‘Drugs, Stigma and Emergency Services’, Online

This presentation explored selected quantitative and qualitative data from an evaluation of Police Scotland’s naloxone pilot. The data indicated that police officers in Scotland had a range of views about problem drug use, and people who use drugs (P... Read More about Police officer’s perspectives of people who use drugs: compassion or stigma? Evidence from an evaluation of Police Scotland’s naloxone pilot.

Naloxone In Police Scotland - June 2023 update (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hillen, P. (2023, June). Naloxone In Police Scotland - June 2023 update. Presented at Drugs Research Network Scotland - end of phase 2 conference, Glasgow

This presentation describes the independent findings of an evaluation of a Police Scotland test of change (pilot) of the carriage and administration of naloxone as an emergency first aid measure to persons suspected of experiencing an opioid overdos... Read More about Naloxone In Police Scotland - June 2023 update.

Evaluating the training, carriage and administration of naloxone in Police Scotland (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hillen, P., Speakman, E., Dougall, N., Heyman, I., Murray, J., Jamieson, M., Aston, E., & McAuley, A. (2023, May). Evaluating the training, carriage and administration of naloxone in Police Scotland. Presented at European Conference on Law Enforcement and Public Health (LEPH) 2023, Umeå, Sweden

‘I’m not going to leave someone to die’: carriage of naloxone by police in Scotland within a public health framework: a qualitative study of acceptability and experiences (2023)
Journal Article
Speakman, E. M., Hillen, P., Heyman, I., Murray, J., Dougall, N., Aston, E. V., & McAuley, A. (2023). ‘I’m not going to leave someone to die’: carriage of naloxone by police in Scotland within a public health framework: a qualitative study of acceptability and experiences. Harm Reduction Journal, 20, Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00750-9

Background
Scotland has one of the highest rates of drug-related deaths (DRDs) per capita in Europe, the majority of which involve opioids. Naloxone is a medication used to reverse opioid-related overdoses. In efforts to tackle escalating DRDs in ma... Read More about ‘I’m not going to leave someone to die’: carriage of naloxone by police in Scotland within a public health framework: a qualitative study of acceptability and experiences.

Police officers across Scotland to carry Naloxone to treat drug overdoses. (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
Hillen, P. (2022). Police officers across Scotland to carry Naloxone to treat drug overdoses

All operational officers in Police Scotland are to be trained and equipped with intra-nasal Naloxone, a life-saving medication which
can be given safely to people who have suffered a drug overdose. The decision was informed by recommendations made b... Read More about Police officers across Scotland to carry Naloxone to treat drug overdoses..

Naloxone In Police Scotland: Pilot evaluation (2022)
Report
Hillen, P., Speakman, E., Dougall, N., Heyman, I., Murray, J., Jamieson, M., Aston, E., & McAuley, A. (2022). Naloxone In Police Scotland: Pilot evaluation. Edinburgh: Drug Deaths Taskforce, Scottish Government

This report describes the independent findings of an evaluation of a Police Scotland test of change (pilot) of the carriage and administration of naloxone as an emergency first aid measure to persons suspected of experiencing an opioid overdose. The... Read More about Naloxone In Police Scotland: Pilot evaluation.

Developing a Collaborative Interprofessional programme, Challenges and Lessons Learned (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hislop, J., & Hillen, P. (2021, June). Developing a Collaborative Interprofessional programme, Challenges and Lessons Learned. Presented at University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference 2021: Curriculum as a site for Transformation, Edinburgh

In 2019 a new post-graduate, pre-registration, collaborative programme in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Social Work was developed at Edinburgh Napier University. The rationale for the programme was to prepare health and social care graduate... Read More about Developing a Collaborative Interprofessional programme, Challenges and Lessons Learned.

Development of an Integrated Curriculum for Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Social Work Students in Scotland (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hislop, J., MacDonald, D., Yates, P., James, K., McLelland, C., Hillen, P., Goetzold, S., & McKay, E. (2019, May). Development of an Integrated Curriculum for Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Social Work Students in Scotland. Poster presented at World Confederation for Physical Therapy, Geneva, Switzerland

Background: The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act (2014) came into effect in April 2016 bringing in integration of adult health and social care services in Scotland. This integration has been described as being the most significant change... Read More about Development of an Integrated Curriculum for Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Social Work Students in Scotland.

Evaluating effectiveness in social work: sharing dilemmas in practice (2018)
Journal Article
Cree, V., Jain, S., & Hillen, D. P. (2019). Evaluating effectiveness in social work: sharing dilemmas in practice. European Journal of Social Work, 599-610. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2018.1441136

Evaluating effectiveness is of primary concern to social work practice; resources will always be limited, and those using services deserve the best. But what is effectiveness, and how should it be measured? This paper explores the challenge of measur... Read More about Evaluating effectiveness in social work: sharing dilemmas in practice.