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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Hamish Morrison

Drugs deaths minister uses extraordinary powers in bid to tackle crisis

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EXTRAORDINARY powers have been used by the Scottish Government to speed up sluggish progress on implementing key measures to tackle the drugs deaths “emergency” in Scotland, it has been announced.

Angela Constance, the minister tasked with curbing Scotland’s rates of deaths caused by drugs, admitted that progress on implementing a key plank of its plan to bring down drug death numbers has been “too slow” but told MSPs she has ordered local partners to move faster.

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