drug deaths increased yet again in 2020.Official figures show the numbers to die amounted to 1339 - a massive increase of five per cent on the previous year’s figures, which were already the worst in the world.The latest toll of tragedy once more puts the world’s gaze on Scotland for the wrong reasons.Annemarie Ward, of the FAVOR charity, said: “These new figures show that we need to get people into treatment.
We need to stop turning them away and we need to stop telling people that they need to keep taking drugs of one form or another as a starting point for treatment.“The new approach has to start right here or the deaths will keep mounting up.”The Daily Record has told how a massive supply of cheap street drugs, mainly etizolam, are.
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