'Surprise and disappointment' at UK drug response
BBC
September 7th, 2020
BBC
September 7th, 2020
Read the full story here.A cross-party group of MPs has accused the UK government of the almost "wholesale rejection" of moves to tackle Scotland's record drug deaths.
It comes after the Scottish Affairs Committee published a report in November calling for a radical re-think of current drugs policy.
Their recommendations included decriminalising drugs for personal use and backing consumption rooms.
However, the UK government has rejected most of the recommendations.
They include calls to declare Scotland's record drug deaths - 1,187 in 2018 - a public health emergency.