There must be a focus on humanising drug users in a bid to tackle the city’s addiction issues, according to one of the area’s top police officers.
In July, it emerged that Dundee had recorded the highest number of annual drug deaths on record, with 66 people dying of substance abuse in the last year.
Weeks later, the Dundee Drugs Commission – set up in 2018 to examine drug deaths in the city and look at ways to reduce the number of fatalities – released an 80-page report demanding a radical culture change within treatment services and condemning the current support as “not fit for purpose”.
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