A lack of funding is a barrier to the provision of residential rehab in more than three quarters of areas, new figures show. A survey of Scotland’s 30 Alcohol and
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Health experts have teamed up to produce a strategy aimed at tackling the key risk factors causing death and ill-health in Scotland, accusing the Scottish Government of having lost its
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The opening of the UK’s first official drugs consumption room has been delayed. The facility, in Glasgow, was due to open on October 21 but Glasgow City Council said this
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Scotland’s drug deaths remain the worst in Europe as ministers vowed to intensify efforts to deal with the problem, after a “hugely concerning” 12% rise in fatalities last year. Health
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A union representing prison officers is calling for a “full investigation” into the “deliberate poisoning” of staff with the drug spice at HMP Swaleside. The Criminal Justice Workers Union has
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An anti-overdose drug is to be made more widely available without a prescription. Professionals, including nurses, paramedics, police officers and probation workers, will be able to provide supplies of naloxone
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About 400 prison staff have been trained to use an anti-opioid medicine amid a spate of deaths which are believed to be drug-related, a minister has said. Justice minister Edward
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Girls in the UK are drinking, smoking and vaping more than boys, while England is “top of the charts” globally for child alcohol use, a major report has found. In
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Inmates are developing drug problems after being jailed because of long waiting times for mental health services, a report has found. An inspection report for HMP Wymott, near Leyland in
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A prisons watchdog is appealing to inmates at a jail where six people have died in a short space of time to dispose of any drugs. Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
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