A year that has seen the organisation learn and grow, as well as become equipped to understand how the drug policy agenda can continue to be informed in 2019.
Responses to the high rates of overdose deaths in Scotland must range from harm reduction interventions, like drug consumption rooms, to low threshold prescribing and outreach nursing.
Recent government announcements take a significant leap to treating drug issues as health and social matters as opposed to criminal issues, in addition to encouraging community-based support.
Despite Ireland suffering from one of the highest overdose death rates in the EU, over 90 local businesses have opposed the implementation of this harm reduction facility.