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Service users and supporters of a charity aiming to tackle drug addiction and homelessness have marked its tenth anniversary with a special exhibition, it has been reported.
Drug addicts living in Scotland have been promised most will receive treatment after waiting no longer than three weeks in the near future.
Calls have been made for a trial scheme to take place in Aberdeen that would see addicts able to be prescribed heroin on the NHS.
A trial of a drug that has been proven to be less addictive than methadone is to be offered to heroin addicts in Glasgow.
Campaigners have criticised comments from singer Joss Stone in which she appears to glamorise drugs.
The father of a heroin addict has urged other parents to look out for the signs of substance abuse before it is too late, it has been reported.
Welsh school children are being given a glimpse of the world of drug addiction and criminality in a new education programme, it has been reported.
Cocaine and heroin addiction continue to be a problem for European countries and the European Union has had little impact in curbing their use, although addiction and use of softer drugs such as cannabis has fallen in the past year, new data shows.
The government should make a greater effort to help people suffering from prescription drug addictions, it has been claimed, with a greater emphasis on intervention and rehabilitation.
Reading is set to get a new suite of addiction treatment services, as companies are currently bidding to provide a new selection of addiction rehabilitation facilities in the area.