BBC Scotland today is delighting in an increase in drug deaths for 2023, after a big fall in 2022 and the opportunity once more to remind us: It means Scotland continues to have a far higher rate of recorded drugs deaths than other European nations, including England and Wales. Not mentioned, this in the Sunday Mail in February 2024: Scotland is seeing an explosion of ‘county lines’ gangs forcing children and vulnerable adults to smuggle drugs to every corner of the country. The Scottish Mail on Sunday can reveal at least 55 gangs have been identified operating north of the … Continue reading English gangs flooding Scotland with stronger but cheaper drugs to keep drug deaths high