Tackling Drug Misuse in Scotland

As an amendment to motion S1M-00437 in the name of Angus MacKay (Tackling Drug Misuse in Scotland), leave out from “welcomes” to end and insert “while welcoming the Executive’s cross-cutting approach and the efforts being made to reverse the tragic level of drug deaths and drug misuse in Scotland, notes that the present framework for dealing with drug abuse is exceptionally bureaucratic and complicated and calls upon the Scottish Executive to appoint a Minister with sole responsibility for drugs within existing Ministerial numbers and budgets to help streamline this system, making it more easily understood and accessible to the people it seeks to serve.