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Plan to give Scots addicts 'right to rehab' splits drug support groups
31.05.2022 - 07:01 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Addicts could be given the legal right to access rehab under controversial new laws being considered by the Scottish Parliament.
A Right to Recovery Bill has been put before the Scottish Parliament by the Tories.
But it has split drug campaign groups over whether it is the right way to beat the drug deaths crisis.
The proposal would enshrine the right to receive treatment including residential rehabilitation, which all but disappeared in Scotland as savage funding cuts bit in the past 15 years.
Influential drugs reform campaign groups including the Scottish Drugs Forum, Transform and Release, made the unusual move of releasing a statement voicing criticism of the bill.
They claimed one unintended side-effect could be draining of cash from other areas like “harm reduction” which in Scotland usually refers to methadone provision.
The Scottish Drugs Forum’s CEO David Liddell was among those to speak against the bill.
He said: “The Bill is right to suggest easily accessible and good quality treatment is crucial.
"To prevent drug deaths, people should get the support they need and stay in treatment long enough to get full protection and benefit.
“But these proposals are an attempt to bring back the flawed Road To Recovery strategy - that saw drug deaths rise from 574 in 2008 to 1187 in 2018 and treatment services become marginalised and isolated from other care and support services.
“These proposals suggest that people should threaten to prosecute the NHS services that are treating them.
"That is not a good starting point for building the trusting relationships that people in treatment and people supporting them need to share.
“The proposed Right to Recovery seems to offer a simple solution to the challenge Scotland faces.
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