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Agenda item 3 – Referral of a Bill at Stage 1 4. The Bureau agreed to refer the Right to AddictionRecovery (Scotland) Bill to the Health, Social Care and...
Professor Susanna Galea-Singer (NHS Fife) told the Committee that many of the people who come into custody have long histories of trauma, neglect and mental-health problems, and that prison can feel like a continuation of those harms if they do not provide the right kind of support. Tracey McFall (Scottish Recovery Consortium) added that recovery services must recognise and respond to those experiences to be effectiveiiScottish Parliament Criminal Justice Committee.
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Evidence from Public Health Scotland and the Royal College of General Practitioners (Scotland) highlighted persistent workforce shortages in mental‑health and addiction services across the prison estate.
Will the First Minister finally throw her weight behind our proposed right to addictionrecoverybill, which will enshrine in law the right to residential rehab?
The Committee also notes from its wider work this session that access to community-based disposals and support services is not consistent across Scotland. Evidence received in earlier budget scrutiny and community-justice sessions highlighted that the availability of structured alternatives to custody, and the capacity of community addiction and recovery services, can vary significantly by local authority.
It set up countless talking shops while refusing to back my party’s proposed right to addictionrecoverybill to give addicts the treatment that they need—shameful.