Francis McGowan. Francis, 52, told Angela Constance here is a huge gulf between what his local Alcohol and Drug Partnership claims to offer addicts and what is actually available.
The experience of Francis, who claims to have only ever have been offered methadone in the past 20 years, is a dent in Constance’s pledge to offer more services, faster.
She now means to demand answers on why Francis’s treatment hit a log-jam, with a view to applying any lessons to all local authorities.Francis’s story as featured in the Record last month, when he told of his descent into drug use as a coping mechanism when he was just 11 - two years after being sexually abused by Dunblane killer Thomas Hamilton.After the face to face briefing at St Andrew’s.
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