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SCOTLAND is in the middle of a drug crisis. The number of drug-related deaths in the country . Today, it has the highest drug-related death rate in the European Union.
Though smaller in scale, the problem has been compared to the US opioid crisis. There, huge numbers of people became addicted to prescription opioid painkillers and graduated to illegal opioids. It seems a similar sort of pattern is unfolding in Scotland, but with a different sort of drug.
Opioid drugs…
