INEXCUSABLE
Daily Record|June 14, 2023
Ministers slammed after failure to end Scotland's tragic shame
MARK MCGIVERN
INEXCUSABLE

SCOTLAND is still failing around its to turn shameful drug deaths crisis, figures reveal.

The latest quarterly death count of 298 is the highest since June 2021.

And suspected drug deaths in the first three months of the year were five percent UP on the same period last year.

Drawn from Police Scotland management data, the figures follow equally tragic stats for the previous three months, when 295 died.

The deaths have continued despite a national mission on drugs-announced by former first minister Nicola Sturgeon in 2021 and backed by £250million of funding over five years.

The drugs services sector has faced delays in implementing key, rights-based MAT (medication assistant treatment) standards.

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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة June 14, 2023 من Daily Record.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.