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Conservative Party Conference 2021: Time to Reflect on Drug Related Deaths in England and Wales

As the Conservative Party Conference comes to a close it’s an important time to reflect on the unprecedented number of lives lost to preventable drug related deaths in England and Wales last year. While drug reform isn’t high on the Conservative Party agenda, further criminalisation and stigmatisation of people who use drugs seems to be. At the … Continued

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Stop the Deaths: Drug Related Deaths In Scotland

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The Scottish government has announced that they will be introducing Drug Consumption Rooms in an attempt to get to grips with the ongoing drug crisis in Scotland. This announcement comes shortly after the latest statistics reveal a record number of drug related deaths, the highest since records began, with a 5% increase in DRDs … Continued