DRUG DEATH TASKFORCE AXE 'NAIVE'
Daily Record|July 05, 2022
MSP blasts Government-formed group
MARK MCGIVERN
DRUG DEATH TASKFORCE AXE 'NAIVE'

AN MSP has hit out at the decision to scrap the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce and replace it with another body answerable only to the Scottish Government.

The Taskforce was created in 2019 after campaigning by the Daily Record for a proper emergency response to our spiralling drug deaths.

But it has been widely branded as a failure as deaths have risen.

This story is from the July 05, 2022 edition of Daily Record.

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