Safe Injection Services

As an amendment to motion S5M-11695 in the name of Aileen Campbell (Safe Injection Services), insert at end "; urges, therefore, the Scottish and UK governments to adopt evidence-led drug policies to protect public health and prevent unnecessary drug-related harm and deaths, and believes that the scale of the challenge necessitates a step change in the approach to drugs, with solutions, in addition to safe injection services, that include heroin assisted treatment, protecting drug and alcohol service budgets, ending the destructive use of imprisonment for people misusing drugs and instead diverting them to treatment and education as part of the decriminalisation of the possession of drugs for personal use, local authorities making licensing decisions based on venues' efforts to keep their customers safe, and introducing a regulated market for cannabis."