Scotland drug deaths: Call for £20m rehab beds funding
DRUGS recovery organisations are calling on the Scottish Government to provide more funding for rehab beds ahead of new figures for drugs-related deaths being published tomorrow. The delayed figures for 2019 will be released tomorrow after drugs-related deaths in Scotland accounted of the death of 1,187 people in 2018. The Scottish Conservatives have pointed to a £20 million Scottish recovery fund which the party claims is needed to replace historic cuts to rehabilitation programmes and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The plans have been backed by rehab and recovery groups. CE...
Source: heraldscotland.com