Readers will know that despite all the evidence showing that Scotland’s tragic drug death rate has its causal root in Thatcherite policies from the 80s through New Labour neglect in the 90s, opposition parties and their media chums still feel able to blame the SNP ‘after 16 years in power.’ Drug deaths have fallen in Scotland in the last three years but that remains, for critics, not good enough. In only one group, the over 55s who were born and grew up in the industrial and hopeless wasteland that was Scotland under Cons and Labour, drug deaths have soared, from … Continue reading Significant falls in drug deaths among the young after 16 years of SNP rule