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MICHAEL MARRA: Dundee deserves better than a government with its eye off the ball on drugs deaths

MICHAEL MARRA: Dundee deserves better than a government with its eye off the ball on drugs deaths by Michael Marra © DC Thomson Before Covid 19 struck we in Dundee had our own quiet epidemic spiralling out of control. In the decade before lockdown 447 of our friends, neighbours, old classmates, our cousins, nephews, nieces, our sons and daughters and parents had been lost. As the line on the graph tipped ever more steeply upwards the voice of our city grew louder. Empty shoes and crosses mark lives lost in Dundee at a ceremony for International Overdose Awareness Day in 2018. But our SNP government, now by their own admission, was not listening.

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Angela Constance pledges focused attention on drug deaths hotspots

© SYSTEM Drug deaths hotspots like Dundee must be given “focused attention” to turn around Scotland’s harrowing record on overdoses, MSPs have been told. Drugs policy minister Angela Constance told members of Holyrood’s health and sport committee no area should be left behind, including in rural communities, as part of the “national mission” to tackle the crisis. Ms Constance was brought into the newly created post following the resignation of public health minister Joe FitzPatrick in December after drug-related deaths in Scotland reached a record high of 1,264 for 2019. Joe FitzPatrick. The figure was branded a “national disgrace” by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon earlier this year, as she admitted “more should have been done” to get to grips with the crisis and announced £250 million of new funding.

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Drugs activist Peter Krykant to run for Scottish Parliament at May election

A DRUGS campaigner who operates a safe consumption space in Glasgow has announced he will run for a seat in the Scottish Parliament at the upcoming election. With help from trained volunteers Peter Krykant launched a mobile overdose prevention facility this year, giving drug users in the city a safe space to inject. The group have been credited with saving lives thanks to their supply of clean needles and overdose-preventing naloxone. Scotland has the worst drug death rate in Europe with more than 1200 people dying of drug misuse in 2019, according to the latest figures. Attempts to legalise safe drug facilities in Glasgow and across Scotland have been unsuccessful, with the UK Government rejecting calls to decriminalise drugs.

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