*This episode was originally recorded as a webinar on the 25th September 2025*

The fourth webinar of The Manifesto Sessions, discusses safer inhalation devices (SIDs), often referred to as crack pipes.

As part of our ‘Setting the blueprint for a more equal and prosperous Wales for people who use substances’, we want ‘to be able to give out safer inhalation devices to people who use crack cocaine via needle and syringe programmes’. Currently, drug treatment services across the UK are prohibited from providing SIDs to people who use crack cocaine, under the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) 1971, section 9A, However, there has been a significant rise in both people reporting crack cocaine, and cocaine related deaths. 

In this episode, we are joined by Professor Rick Lines, (Head of Substance Misuse and Vulnerable Populations for Public Health Wales) and Mat Southwell (Managing and Technical Director of Coact Technical Support).

The Manifesto Sessions is a series of ten webinars, with each webinar focusing on a specific “ask” with Barod's '⁠⁠⁠Setting the blueprint for a more equal and prosperous Wales for people who use substances⁠⁠⁠'. For more information about this webinar series, including future sessions, please click here.