The Scottish city of Glasgow will soon host the U.K.'s first "consumption room," where people can go to use illegal drugs in a controlled environment, in a bid to address Scotland's long-standing ...

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Scotland's drug deaths remain the highest in Europe despite repeated government pledges to tackle the issue, new figures have shown. Last year there was a 12% rise in the number of drug misuse-related ...

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DRUG dealers flooding Scotland’s streets with deadly heroin have been dodging jail. The fatal poison has seen the number of deaths surge as the country’s drug crisis continues to worsen. But dealers ...

A squalid drug den featuring a tree covered in dirty heroin syringes has been discovered just yards from Scotland's only 'safe' consumption room. Laying bare the extent of Glasgow's substance crisis, ...

More than 1,000 people died as a result of result of drugs in Scotland last year, new data to be released today will show. The country already had more than twice the rate of drug deaths as the rest ...

Radical drug reforms proposed by the Scottish Government – including decriminalisation of possession for personal use – were knocked down by Westminster within an hour of being announced. Scottish ...

In a bid to strengthen the fight against drug deaths, firefighters in Scotland will now be able to volunteer to carry naloxone nasal spray to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The Scottish ...

It’s one of the most famous monologues in cinematic history: “Choose life,” says Ewan McGregor in the 1996 film adaptation of “Trainspotting,” Irvine Welsh’s gritty novel about a group of drug addict ...