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Nicola Sturgeon apologises over drugs deaths crisis in Scotland

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Our Politics newsletter is now daily. Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.Nicola Sturgeon has apologised after the number of drugs-related deaths in Scotland reached a record high in 2019.The First Minister told MSPs she accepted the situation was worse north of the border than elsewhere in the UK and pledged she would work with health services and charities to turn the situation around.But the SNP leader faced criticism from Labour and Conservatives after the Scottish Government was accused of cutting funding for addiction treatment "to the bone" over the last decade.Tory MSP Ruth Davidson said just 13 per cent of beds in drugs rehabilitation services were directly funded by the.

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