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'More addicts fined than treated'

00:25, Nov 22 2009

 

Courts are shunning drug treatment orders and fining addicts instead, it has been claimed.

Liberal Democrats said figures showing a huge leap in convictions for drug possession, but only a tiny rise in drug treatment and test orders, should be a "wake-up call" for the Scottish Government.

The figures were given by the Scottish Government in response to parliamentary questions from Lib Dem justice spokesman Robert Brown.

 

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