The Scottish Government is to increase the minimum price at which alcohol can be sold by 30%, it has confirmed. Deputy First Minister Shona Robison said the hike in the
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The Scottish Government’s drugs and alcohol policy minister Elena Whitham has resigned for health reasons. The SNP minister said that over the last year, she had “experienced a series of
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Deaths registered from drug poisoning in England and Wales are at the highest level since records began 30 years ago. Opiates were involved in just under half of such deaths,
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Penny Mordaunt has claimed young Scots will have “somewhere safe and warm to take heroin” as a result of the SNP’s “appalling legacy”. The Commons Leader (pictured) took aim at
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Drugs minister Elena Whitham has said she will be “robust” in her fight to secure adequate funding for her portfolio. Scotland has been struggling with record high drug deaths in
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A £2 million village for recovering addicts is to be built in Dundee. The charity Social Bite has copied its model already in use in Edinburgh to support homeless people
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A drug consumption room being set up in Glasgow will help save lives, one former addict has said. The 52-year-old, from Paisley, used drugs for more than 30 years before
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Significant work will be needed to ensure drug users are not prosecuted for transporting illegal drugs into the UK’s first safe consumption room, the head of Glasgow’s health and social
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A pilot drugs consumption room in Glasgow must be taken forward “with urgency”, Humza Yousaf has said, after a statement from Scotland’s Lord Advocate paved the way for such a
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Drugs law must be reformed, MPs have concluded as they recommended greater testing at festivals as well as the use of safe spaces across the UK for users to take
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