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For Justina Murray, chief executive of the charity Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs, the problems do not lie with strategy or funding but with culture and delivery, especially in ...
Drug related (or misuse) mortality rates have begun to rise in Scotland since the 1980s. [6] A variety of factors can be considered to be behind the beginning of the epidemic; Neo-liberal economic restructuring in the 1980s caused parts of large cities in Scotland to go into terminal decline causing income inequality to rise and increased inner city deprivation with the working-class ...
The Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy is a junior ministerial post in the Scottish Government. As a result, the minister does not attend the Scottish Cabinet but reports to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care (Scotland) who does.
Scotland’s minister for drug policy outlined some measures aimed at tackling the drug death crisis.
The Lyons Crime Family is a British crime firm in Glasgow, Scotland involved in various organised crime activities, including drug trafficking, money laundering, extortion and violence. Since 2001, the Lyons family has been embroiled in a longstanding and deadly feud with another Glasgow-based crime family , the Daniel Crime Family .
The Scottish government has proposed decriminalizing possession of all drugs for personal use to tackle one of Europe’s highest overdose death rates. The suggestion was almost instantly blocked ...
Drug misuse crude death in 2019 regionally and overall. In 2023, 3,618 deaths in England and Wales [1] and 1,172 in Scotland were recorded as “drug misuse”. [2] Deaths from drugs overtook traffic fatalities in the United Kingdom as a leading cause of death in 2008, and have risen every year since 2012.
The majority of Swinney's cabinet was previously part of Humza Yousaf's previous governments. The only addition to the cabinet was Kate Forbes replacing Shona Robison as Deputy First Minister of Scotland , and taking part of Màiri McAllan 's responsibility for economy into her portfolio as Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Gaelic . [ 8 ]