Strengthening Scotland's Public Health Approach to Preventing Alcohol and Drug Deaths

As an amendment to motion S7M-01766 in the name of Maree Todd (Strengthening Scotland's Public Health Approach to Preventing Alcohol and Drug Deaths), leave out from “further agrees” to end and insert “recognises that preventing alcohol and drug deaths requires accessible treatment, effective public health measures and a strong justice response; expresses serious concern at the Scottish Government’s continuing shortcomings in access to treatment; regrets that the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill was not passed and calls for a legal right to timely and clinically appropriate treatment, backed by funded detoxification, residential rehabilitation, community recovery and aftercare; calls for a funded alcohol prevention and treatment plan with published targets and support for effective clinical harm reduction, alongside clear routes into recovery; further calls on the Scottish Government to review the effectiveness of the current methadone treatment provision and to report regularly to Parliament on access to treatment, recovery outcomes and the number of individuals assessed for rehabilitation who are not subsequently admitted to a programme, and agrees that the Scottish Government must use its existing powers, work constructively with the UK Government and involve people affected by addiction, their families and local communities in decisions.”