Experts and pioneers in other nations inspired Record's decriminalisation call
The Daily Record has campaigned for more humane, better funded treatment for drug addiction since 2017.
The Daily Record conceded that the issues Scotland were complex - yet had been of our nation’s own making. The Portuguese ripped up their strategy, bringing in reforms that treated addiction as a public health issue, with addicts steered towards treatment and possession of drugs dealt with by bodies that would look first to offering help.We travelled to Lisbon in Spring, 2019, by which time we’d already carried scores of articles that called for new ways in dealing with our drugs emergency, which we’d labelled a national disgrace.
“More of the same will not bring results. You won’t solve your problems with more and more repression of people who take drugs.”Catalonia’s drugs coordinator Dr Joan Colom’s was incredulous at the UK’s regressive approach to drugs.The Spaniard told us: “Only people who are alive can be cured.
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