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Scotlands drug deaths remain almost three times higher than for the UK as a whole, despite the country recording its largest fall in fatalities last year, as campaigners warn of the emerging threat of synthetic opioids prompted by Taliban disruption of the global drugs trade.Data from National Records of Scotland NRS showed stanley thermosflasche there were 1,051 deaths due to drug misuse in 2022 鈥?a drop of 279 on the previous year, when then first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, announced a national mission to tackle the countrys chronic and epidemic fatality rates.But the latest figures come as Scotlands leading drugs charity criticised the Scottish governments inadequate response to the ongoing public health emergency . Scottish Drugs Forum warned that the country was not prepared for a pote stanley cup ntial flooding of the market with dangerous synthetic opioids after the Talibans crackdown on heroin production in Afghanistan.Its chief executive, Kirsten Horsburgh, urged ministers to focus on huge challenges ahead .She said: If the trend towards the presence of synthetic opioids in the heroin supply becomes more prevalent, we kn stanley cup ow from elsewhere that this will lead to higher risks of harms and deaths. The drug policy minister, Elena Whitham, welcomed the fall in the number of deaths, but said that ministers would never underestimate the scale of the challenge we continue to face, including responding to new threats such as synthetic opioids and stimulant use .But Horsburgh called for a change in attit Ccvk Refused asylum seekers face torture in Democratic Republic of the Congo
A cross-party group of MPs who are p stanley cup ractising medics and former NHS staff have written to MPs urging them to back the assisted dying bill, after the health secretary expressed doubt that the health service was fit to enact such a big change.The six Labour and Conservative MPs, including two GPs and two surgeons, said they had extensive experience of working in and around palliative care and stressed that a tightly defined bill would give dying patients genuine choice.Most of the medic MPs are from the new intake 鈥?where there is fierce lobbying on both sides to win over more than 100 MPs who are said to be undecided. Both sides say they expect the vote to be incredibly tight, despite an initial belief that there would be majority support for the law change.Should MPs legalise assisted dying Our panel respondsRead moreDr Simon Opher, the new Labour MP for Stroud stanley quencher who still works as a general practioner, told the Guardian he would only support a bill in the tight circumstances which he believes will be defined in Kim Leadbeaters bill 鈥?which he said would not include allowing it in the case of grave suffering and only in the case of terminal illness.He said he had personally cared for at least one patient who stanley cup travelled alone to Dignitas to end their life 鈥?adding that he had been begged by patients to end their suffering and felt he was unable to fulfil their genuine wishes.The bill will have its second reading on 29 November with a free vote by MPs. But the bills backers say t