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Jon Brady

Scale of Dundee drug deaths crisis 'greater than anticipated' new review reveals

A commission brought together to examine ways of tackling Dundee's drugs death crisis has concluded that the situation remains challenging across the city.

The Dundee Drugs Commission's latest review of its report, first published in 2019 amid shameful levels of substance abuse, says the scale of the problem is greater than was first anticipated, despite positive moves made to date to help those with a drug addiction.

Experts on the working group, from public health and addiction workers through to council representatives, have issued a range of fresh recommendations to encourage action that, to date, has not gone "far enough, deep enough or fast enough".

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