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Scotland's drug deaths scandal is a problem no one seems able to solve

28 July 2022

8:42 PM

28 July 2022

8:42 PM

Scotland has a high amount of drugs deaths. But it’s not just that. It’s that Scotland suffers drugs deaths at levels unknown anywhere else in the UK or Europe – nearly four times worse than any other country for which records exist. This scandalous figure has been updated today, showing that – although it fell one per cent this year – it has trebled since the SNP came to power.

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