Rigid and punitive treatment regime is failing to stem record number of fatalities
A hard-hitting report on drug deaths in Dundee, which has been named the drug deaths capital of Europe, is demanding a radical culture change within treatment services. It calls on them to abandon their decades-long inflexibility and become “ambitious” on behalf of the people they work with.
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