Scotland’s drug problem
In the wake of the Scottish government’s complete failure to remedy the drug death epidemic, Phill Kelly discusses the magnitude of this tragedy, and how the only effective response is the communist response
Drug deaths in Scotland continued to rise in 2020
1339 people died as a result of drug misuse in Scotland in 2020, an increase of 75 from the previous year, marking a seventh consecutive year of record deaths.
Sharp increase in modern slavery during the pandemic
Amid the pandemic, reports of sexual and criminal exploitation have severely increased, as stated in new figures calculating the extent of modern slavery and trafficking in the UK. Compared with the preceding year, cases of sexual exploitation, which includes people held captive in brothels and those strong-armed into prostitution, increased by a quarter in 2020. Almost a quarter of cases concerned children.
