Drugs and Alcohol: Preventing and Reducing Harms

As an amendment to motion S5M-20635 in the name of Joe FitzPatrick (Drugs and Alcohol: Preventing and Reducing Harms), insert at end “, for example, by extending the involvement of the Scottish Government in the development of UK-wide policy frameworks on drugs; agrees with the Scottish Affairs Committee that there is undoubtedly more that the Scottish Government can do within its existing powers to address problem drug use, and calls on the Scottish Government to coordinate a plan for a Scotland-wide network of heroin-assisted treatment facilities, divert people caught in possession of drugs for personal use into treatment and cease imprisonment in these cases, helping save lives."