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Activist 'cannot support Right to Rehab Bill' in Scotland amid split between drug reform groups

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Drugs campaigner Peter Krykant has told Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross he cannot support the party’s “Right to Recovery” Bill.

The private bill was drafted by campaigners Annemarie Ward, of the FAVOR charity, and Stephen Wishart, with the aim of increasing the right to advocacy and redress if treatment is refused or blocked in Scotland.

The Scottish Tories were the only party to offer support and they are seeking to have it voted through taking it through at Holyrood.But Krykant, along with the influential Release and Transform drug reform bodies, is set to publish a paper that claims the bill could do more harm than good.The groups behind the bill are understood to be "extremely disappointed" at the way the spat has been brought into

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