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From the Blog

Scottish drugs deaths – denial of the problem

Just too late to join the row about the record-breaking illegal drug deaths in Scotland, here's a letter I didn't send to the press. Recent correspondence is quite right to point out that the cause of the scale of the Scottish drug-related deaths is official denial,...

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