Parkes, Tessa
Carver, Hannah
Boyd, Jennifer https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8780-3196
Cotton, Seonaidh
Breeman, Suzanne
Cooper, David
Forrest, Mark
Foster, Rebecca
Hawthorn, Jake
Hunt, Kate
Kilonzo, Mary
Matheson, Catriona
Maxwell, Margaret
Mercer, Stewart W.
Pauly, Bernie
Scotland, Graham
Steele, Wez
Sumnall, Harry
Wallace, Jason
Macaulay, Lisa
MacLennan, Graeme
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Technology Assessment Programme (NIHR150358)
Department of Health and Social Care
Salvation Army
Article History
Received: 28 March 2025
Accepted: 3 December 2025
First Online: 13 December 2025
Declarations
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: Ethics approval was granted by the University of Stirling NHS, Invasive or Clinical Research Ethics Committee (NICR 2024 16751), and the Ethics Subgroup of the Research Coordinating Council of TSA. Written informed consent will be obtained from participants prior to administering the ASSIST screening tool and for qualitative data collection.
: Not applicable; this manuscript does not contain individual personal data from participants.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests apart from Catriona Matheson who has received personal fees and non-financial support from Indivior (Richmond, VA, USA) and personal fees from Camurus AB (Lund, Sweden), outside the submitted work.