Drug experts hail Record campaign as drug consumption rooms get green light

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : And she stressed that the statement was merely echoing Scotland's already-stated position on drug possession, where diversion from prosecution to treatment is the preferred course of action.
52% : Martin Powell, Head of Partnerships, Transform Drug Policy Foundation said: "The spotlight now falls on the UK Government to finally accept the calls from innumerable expert and cross-party party bodies to allow the opening of these facilities in every area that needs one."Drugs policy minister Elena Whitham said the Lord Advocate's statement would still be limited to some extent, due to the reserved Misuse of Drugs Act.
48% : He said: "It is important to note that existing legislation will not be changing and, while we may take an overall supportive policing approach, police officers will still be bound by their legal duty to uphold the law and will not be able to simply ignore acts of criminality which they see occurring."The Lord Advocate's statement comes after figures from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed there were a total of 1,051 deaths due to drug misuse in Scotland in 2022.
43% : The issue has rumbled on for five years, with calls for a change in the law at Westminster to allow the facility to be set up.
41% : The ambulance has now become a modern museum piece - as the UK's first on the streets of Glasgow in 2020, the Daily Record had already called for the decriminalisation of drug possession.
33% : However, the UK Government has consistently rejected pleas for such a facility, sticking to heavily criticised prohibition principles enshrined in the Misuse of Drugs Act.

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