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Scottish Government pledges: "Rehab for every addicted person who wants it."

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The Scottish Government has pledged to fund at least 1,000 people each year in drug rehab.The latest measures were announced by drugs minister Angela Constance, whose reign has signalled a major return to abstinence based rehab as a valid way of tackling Scotland’s drug deaths crisis.Funded rehab was virtually abandoned in Scotland after being regarded as ineffective and too costly by SNP health ministers in recent years.

But the drug death rate has soared from 455 in 2007 to 1,339 last year, creating a recognised emergency.Constance stridently announced in Holyrood that, over the next five years, “everyone who wants residential rehabilitation, and for whom it is considered clinically appropriate, can access it”.The latest announcement

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