Scottish Government needs to treat drug death scandal as a REAL emergency, not a political headache
Record chief reporter Mark McGivern says Covid has proven that massive interventions can be made if the problem is deemed to be serious enough
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Health minister Joe FitzPatrick signed our pledge to do all he can to beat drug scourge - but Covid billions show how little priority we have given to the world record deaths (Image: Daily Record)
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Scotland s drug deaths increase as country worst in world for overdoses
Outrage over Scottish Government s inability to turn the tide of deaths and get people in treatment.
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Drug deaths are up by six per cent
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Scotland s failure to tackle our drug crisis has been confirmed - up six cent on the worst death rate in the world the previous year.