Experts have joined forces to call for clinics to be set up where drug users can inject in a supervised setting
Drug-related deaths hit a new record of 5,900 in Britain last year. There were. Almost half of such poisonings involved opiates, including heroin, and 777 deaths involved cocaine. “Urgent action is needed to tackle the spiralling rates of drug deaths across the UK. Drug deaths are avoidable and it is unacceptable that we see evidence-based actions to prevent harm such as OPCs go unutilised in the UK,” the statement says.
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