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Launch of new Scottish drugs strategy
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29 May 2008
A new Scottish drugs strategy,
The Road to Recovery, has been announced today by Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing.
David Liddell, Director of Scottish Drugs Forum, said:
“Scottish Drugs Forum fully supports this new drugs strategy for Scotland because it acknowledges that medical help or prison sentences on their own are not nearly adequate to help people overcome their drugs problems.
“It makes clear - and rightly so - that providing services, such as family support, housing, and opportunities for education, training and employment, have an enormous part to play in preventing people from developing drugs problems and helping them move away from them.
“This is a highly ambitious plan of action which will demand a variety of agencies to change the way they work. It is vital that they also have the energy, commitment and appropriate resources to see it through.”
The Scottish Government has also published today its
response to the recommendations of the first annual report of the National Forum on Drug-Related Deaths.