roy: "Gromit, call it what you want, pretend to be outraged but independence is far more important to Nicola than some people dying from drug abuse. " - She doesn't want independence she just want out of the UK due to her pathological hatred of England. Ideally she wants to be dependent on the EUSSR if they'll have her.
A lot of people up here in Scotland blame the Thatcherite years for the drug epedemic up here.But does anyone remember who voted Thatcher into power?Yes,it was the SNP.Back in 1979 the SNP voted with the Tories against Jim Callaghans Labour Party.The SNP have only themselves to blame for Thatcher.The ScotsNats on this site would prefer you not to know about this event.SNP=Tartan Tories=Thatcher enablers.
As I have told you before, Ynna, Thatcher would have happened regardless, with or without the SNP's meagre contribution (three votes). All it did was bring forward the date of the general election by four months. Callaghan was already a dead man walking.
A recent tv documentary stated that there is a significant decrease in alcohol consumption in Scotland because of the price hike due to the minimum price per unit policy.
Is it simply that the boozers have switched to benzos?
Imagine a world without recreational drugs. Imagine a world where years ago drug makers and dealers were re-educated by death. What a difference to today’s mess.
Well ynnafymmi, it's nice to see you and TTT as a mutual admiration society. Same old, same old - Braveheart and the SNP. Time to change the record methinks.
Nae chance,Maggie.Nationalists(widely abhorred and hated the world over)seem to be revered up here in poor old benighted Scotland.Perhaps you would be better using your talents to ask Mrs Murrell what her hubbie has done with £600,000 of Scottish peoples money.
david, there has always been drugs, there always will be drugs. Even in countries that have the death penalty for drug offences, there are drug addicts.
even the original story was only "expected to", so I don't know how the whole picture will turn out. It's a great waste of life, but a lot more lives would have been saved by monitoring Covid in care homes, for instance.
(I know this shouldn't be an either/or choice, but the truth is that Covid is taking a lot of the money that would normally go into other health matters. Politicians' eyes are being taken off the ball a lot these days, but I have some sympathy for them.)
I think the "drugs problem" in Scotland is a very complex one that won't be solved overnight. Every human being makes choices ever day of their lives - good or bad. Some, unfortunately, don't see it as a problem until it's too late.
I find the age range very scary. "Almost two-thirds of all drug-related deaths were people between ages 35 and 54."
Scots also seem to favour "cocktails" of drugs and alcohol.
I have no answer as to what can be done to break the cycle but will support any initiatives our Government support.