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Will the minister listen to FAVOR—Faces and Voices of Recovery—which has called on the Scottish Government to introduce our proposed right to recoverybill to ensure that MAT standards are properly implemented?
The purpose of the Charter of Rights is to support people affected by substance use to realise their rights, including those which will be introduced by the Scottish Human RightsBill.
I advocate for that practical and specific tool, because it will be at the core of what we can do to fight the drug deaths crisis in Dundee and across Scotland more broadly. Colleagues will be aware that I am consulting on my proposed bill to establish overdose prevention centres in Scotland.
Anas Sarwar and Douglas Ross were both right to say that levels of drug deaths in Scotland are unacceptable and are higher, per head of population, than in other parts of the UK.