The chair of Scotland's Drug Deaths Taskforce has called for reform of UK drugs legislation to switch the balance from criminalising addicts in favour of a public health approach to reducing ...

The Daily Record will this week focus on the legacy of the National Mission on drug deaths. We’ll reflect the insight of experts on the mistakes made and areas for ­improvement. Today we hear from ...

Scotland's drug deaths remain the highest in Europe despite repeated government pledges to tackle the issue, new figures have shown. Last year there was a 12% rise in the number of drug misuse-related ...

Scotland's annual drug deaths have soared to be the worst recorded for any nation in the entire world. The total of 1187 deaths is up by 27 per cent on last year’s record total. Scotland’s Public ...

There is no more pitiful a monument to the SNP’s utter inability to govern than the tragic statistic that maintains Scotland’s position at the top of the European league table when it comes to drug ...

The extent of societal harms caused by drug addiction in Scotland is both a human tragedy and economically unsustainable, a ...

In a quiet corner of Glasgow’s East End, a radical public health experiment is underway. For the first time in the United Kingdom, people who inject illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine can do so ...

Gary Kelly and Bruce Munro, reforming drug users from Glasgow, count themselves lucky. They have survived the kind of lethal addictions to substances that have left Scotland with the highest ...

The Scottish government has called for the decriminalisation of all drugs for personal use. It wants the UK government to change the laws to allow people to be "treated and supported rather than ...

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