A total of 1,017 people suffered a fatal overdose in Scotland last year. That figure was a 13% fall on the previous year, and the lowest recorded total since 2017. While the reduction is significant, ...

Scotland's drug deaths remain the highest in Europe despite repeated government pledges to tackle the issue, new figures have shown. Last year there was a 12% rise in the number of drug misuse-related ...

A prominent Scottish drugs campaigner who set up a safe consumption bus has died. Peter Krykant, a former heroin addict, became a public figure after he set up an unofficial supervised facility in a ...