The Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee and Social Justice and Social Security Committee are working together to consider the progress made on the implementation of the recommendations of the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce.
On Tuesday 31 May 2022, the three Committees led a Chamber debate on tackling drug deaths and drug harm.
Read the written submissions (3MB, pdf) posted 23 May 2022
Read the SPICe briefing (301KB, pdf) posted 24 May 2022
The inquiry was discussed at the following Committee meetings:
A people’s panel has been setup to consider the question ‘What does Scotland need to do differently to reduce drug related harms?’ The findings of the panel will help inform the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, the Criminal Justice Committee and the Social Justice and Social Security Committee scrutiny of this issue.
The Committee has sent and received the following correspondence during the inquiry:
Letter from the Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy to the Conveners of the Health, Social Care and Sport, Criminal Justice and Social Justice and Social Security Committees concerning A Caring, Compassionate and Human Rights Informed Drug Policy for Scotland, 7 July 2023
Letter from the Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy to the HSCS Deputy Convener concerning the publication of the annual Drugs Deaths National Statistics for 2022, 18 April 2023
Letter from the Minister for Drugs Policy following their giving evidence at the Joint Committee on 24 November, 21 December 2022
Letter from the Minister for Drugs Policy to the Conveners of the HSCS, CJ, and SJSS Committees, 29 September 2022
Letter from the Minister for Drugs Policy on the publication of the National Mission on Drug Deaths: Plan 2022-2026 dated 9 August 2022
Letter from the Minister for Drugs Policy on a new National Drugs Mission Oversight Group, dated 30 June 2022.
Letter from the Minister for Drugs Policy, Angela Constance on residential rehabilitation, 23 June 2022
Letter from Angela Constance, Minister for Drugs Policy about publication of Public Health Scotland Interim Monitoring Report on Residential Funded Placements, 28 April 2022
Joint Letter from Drugs Policy Minister and Minister for Public Health, Women’s Health and Sport, 31 March 2022
Letter from Angela Constance, Minister for Drugs Policy: Funding Announcement: Aberlour Mother and Child Recovery Houses, 23 March 2022
Letter from Angela Constance, Minister for Drugs Policy about the publication of two documents by the Scottish Government; ‘Evidence Review: Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) implicated deaths and prescribing in Scotland’ and ‘Evidence review of current trends in benzodiazepine use in Scotland’, 15 March 2022.
Letter from Angela Constance, Minister for Drugs Policy about publication of Audit Scotland report on Drugs and Alcohol Services in Scotland, 8 February 2022
Letter from Minister for Drugs Policy, 13 January 2022