A leading drugs expert believes people are increasingly “self-treating” mental health problems with psychedelics, while research suggests large numbers would engage with treatments if they were made available in clinical settings.
A doctor’s organisation has said that serious consideration should be given to decriminalising drug use to help tackle the “national emergency” of drug-related deaths in Scotland.
The families of the Freshwater Five, who were jailed for trying to smuggle 250kg of cocaine into the UK, say there is “a bit of light at the end of the tunnel” as an appeal by two of the men nears its conclusion.
Dundee's SNP administration has brought forward proposals to reconvene the independent Dundee Drugs Commission, chaired by Robert Peat and has announced its intention to provide additional funding to tackle the drugs scourge.
Dundee's SNP administration has brought forward proposals to reconvene the independent Dundee Drugs Commission, chaired by Robert Peat and has announced its intention to provide additional funding to tackle the drugs scourge.
Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people are significantly more likely to suffer poorer mental health or report drug and alcohol misuse compared to heterosexual people, research suggests.
Two men have been charged with being concerned with the supply of controlled drugs after police found more than £1,000 of heroin during a raid in an area of Aberdeen.
A man has been handed a custodial sentence after jumping from a first-floor window of a cannabis factory and breaking his leg when police raided the property.
As a Scot leading drug policy reform in the US, Michael Collins jokes that when he first started pushing for decriminalisation he found himself thrown out of offices and unable to get Washington's big beasts to return his calls.
At least £20 million is needed to tackle Scotland’s drug deaths crisis, Scottish Labour’s health spokesperson says, as MSPs debated the issue at Holyrood.