Families as Lifesavers is being funded through the Drugs Deaths Taskforce A NEW project which helps the families of people at risk of dying through drugs will start work in early January. Families as Lifesavers, which is being funded through the Drugs Deaths Taskforce, helps family members to increase their understanding of drug addiction while building coping strategies and helping them to continue to support their relative. The project, run by Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs, is one of a number of schemes funded through the taskforce. Minister for Drugs Policy Angela Constance said: “Finding out that a loved one is using drugs, and might even be at risk of losing their lives to their addiction, is one of the toughest things any family can face. People want to know the best way to respond, and what they might be able to do to help. They also want to feel they are not alone.
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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.
KARYN McCluskey, chief executive of Community Justice Scotland, has had enough. “One thousand two hundred and sixty four. It’s the equivalent of a whole secondary school dying from drugs in a year in Scotland. Everyone. And then some more,” she said. “Drugs may have killed them – but you could also say they died because of hopelessness, trauma, neglect and missed opportunities,” she said. The latest figures - released today - show Scotland has a higher drug-related death rate than any other EU country, and three and a half times the rate of the UK as a whole. The data from the National Records of Scotland, revealed that 1264 people died in 2019 with causes linked to substances - a 6% increase on 2018.