Home Office minister ‘refused to give evidence’ in Scottish drug use inquiry
A Home Office minister has been criticised over claims she has refused to give evidence to an inquiry about drug use in Scotland.
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Drugs laws must be changed to allow safe consumption rooms, says minister
Scotland’s public health minister has urged the UK Government to change drugs laws, after visiting a medically supervised safer drug consumption facility in Paris.
Problem drug use could be down to childhood adversity, MPs told
Childhood adversity can have a major impact on a person’s ability to make healthy life choices as they grow older, MPs have been told.
Troubled jail makes progress to stop ‘overt’ drug use, inspectors find
A review of standards at Birmingham’s Winson Green prison has questioned an “inexplicable” failure to secure funding for scanners to prevent drugs being smuggled into the jail.
Drugs deaths linked to people facing considerable adversity, study finds
The majority of drugs deaths occur among people who have experienced considerable adversity in their lives, often from a young age, research has found.
Methadone overdose figures slammed by Scottish Conservatives
The Conservatives have called for alternative treatments for drug addicts as figures indicate hundreds of people were taken to hospital after overdosing on the heroin replacement methadone.
Warsi: Inappropriate for Gove to stay in No 10 race after cocaine admission
Michael Gove is facing calls to pull out of the Tory leadership race after admitting taking cocaine.
Gove admits he was ‘fortunate’ to avoid jail for cocaine use
Tory leadership hopeful Michael Gove said he was lucky to have avoided going to prison for cocaine use but denied allegations of hypocrisy for criticising “middle-class professionals” who took drugs and wanted them to be legalised.
Gove criticised cocaine users pushing for legalisation in 1999 column
Tory leadership hopeful Michael Gove criticised “middle-class professionals” who took drugs and wanted them to be legalised in a 1999 column for The Times newspaper, it has emerged.
Australian authorities make country’s biggest seizure of crystal meth
Australian authorities say that they have seized the country’s largest-ever haul of methamphetamine which was hidden in stereo speakers shipped from Bangkok.
Warning over ‘Uberisation of cocaine trade’ as record amounts seized in Europe
Record amounts of cocaine are being seized in Europe and more frequently than ever before, an EU drugs report has claimed.