Addicts could be given the legal right to access rehab under controversial new laws being considered by the Scottish Parliament.
A Right to Recovery Bill has been put before the Scottish Parliament by the Tories.But it has split drug campaign groups over whether it is the right way to beat the drug deaths crisis.
The proposal would enshrine the right to receive treatment including residential rehabilitation, which all but disappeared in Scotland as savage funding cuts bit in the past 15 years.
Influential drugs reform campaign groups including the Scottish Drugs Forum, Transform and Release, made the unusual move of releasing a statement voicing criticism of the bill.
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