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Mark McGivern

Drugs minister pledges to treat every overdose with same priority as death of a child

Scotland's drugs minister has pledged to treat each overdose death with the same priority as the death of a child.

Angela Constance made the promise as she faced accusations of slowness in the delivery of the National Mission to turn around our disgraceful drug deaths record.

The drugs policy minister was also slammed for failing to meet targets for crucial MAT standards, which underpin the strategies for treating addiction.

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