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Gemma Ryder

Give drug addicts the right to treatment that might save their lives

The Right to Recovery Bill presented to Holyrood yesterday contains much that is laudable and urgently needed.

But one considerable impediment to the bill’s success could be the very prominent involvement of the Scottish Tories. Their Westminster masters still believe we can arrest our way out of our drugs nightmare.

They often bang the big abstinence drum so hard it drowns out progressive ideas.

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