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Warning over addiction crisis if frontline workers moved to help coronavirus fight
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dailyrecord.co.ukScots health boards have been warned not to take vital workers away from the front line of our drug-deaths crisis to help with coronavirus.Support groups are angry the Scottish NHS did not ring-fence the roles of alcohol and drug workers, despite our annual death rate being the worst in the world.The failure to categorise such staff as critical staff means they could be diverted as the Covid-19 crisis escalates.Public Health Minister Joe FitzPatrick has written to all health boards and social care partnerships to urge them to recognise drug users’ lives are on the line, particularly with new dangers thrown up by the lockdown.Reports from street teams have shown drugs are getting scarcer, more expensive and are more likely to be laced with
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