(S5O-02628) followed by Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Debate: New Approach Needed to Tackle Scotland s Drugs Crisis ’ S5M-14914 Miles Briggs: New Approach Needed to Tackle Scotland s Drugs Crisis That ’ — the Parliament recognises the drug-related public health crisis; understands that the number of people engaged in problematic use of opiates and/or benzodiazepines has increased since 2007, with 934 fatalities recorded in 2017, and that Scotland now has the highest drug death rate in Europe; considers that the Scottish Government s draft drug and alcohol strategy, All Together ’ Now, is not fit for purpose, and that it will not deliver the additional capacity or intervention needed to reduce Scotland s damaging drug and alcohol levels, and recognises that a new approach is ’ needed to tackle this crisis.