SUMMIT IS WRONG

Campaign group's anger after being 'frozen out' of drug crisis meeting

- MARK MCGIVERN

ANGRY drugs activists have blasted a major summit after they claimed to be frozen out of proceedings.

The FAVOR charity claims the Driving Change conference organised by the influential Scottish Drugs Forum has ignored any radical voices in the face of Scotland's drug deaths emergency.

After the conference was announced, FAVOR chief executive Annemarie Ward tweeted: "Protectors of the status quo talking pure tokenistic mince again.