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SNP MP calls for drugs pandemic to be treated as a public health emergency

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drugs crisis should be declared a public health emergency and addicts treated with “compassion”, a Scottish MP has told the Commons.SNP MP Tommy Sheppard issued a plea for UK ministers to “see the wisdom” in decriminalising the possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use and taking a treatment-based approach to the abuse problem.The Edinburgh East MP was speaking as he introduced a 10-minute rule Bill which aims to reform legislation to allow safe consumption rooms that the Daily Record and Scottish politicians have campaigned for.

He told the Commons: “Problematic drug use afflicts every community in every part of this land."“Tens of thousands have their lives and their health blighted and hundreds of thousands of people.

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