{"id":869,"date":"2014-11-03T14:26:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=869"},"modified":"2014-11-26T12:32:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T12:32:06","slug":"problem-drug-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"PROBLEM DRUG USE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> November 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PRESS RELEASE &#8211;\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>PROBLEM DRUG USE <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are 1,700 problem drug users in Inverclyde according to new data released by the National Health Service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new figures show that the number of problem drug users has remained unchanged since the Scottish Government launched its drug strategy \u2013 Road to Recovery \u2013 in 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commenting on the findings Duncan McNeil <strong>said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Unfortunately it doesn\u2019t look like the Scottish Government\u2019s drug strategy is working. It\u2019s clear from this latest survey that drug misuse continues to be a major problem\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI hope the government is seeking answers as to why this is the case, so it can review and update its strategy, and to seek better outcomes for communities here in Inverclyde and across Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 3rd November 2014 PRESS RELEASE &#8211;\u00a0 PROBLEM DRUG USE There are 1,700 problem drug users in Inverclyde according to new data released by the National Health Service. The new figures show that the number of problem drug users has remained unchanged since the Scottish Government launched its drug strategy \u2013 Road to Recovery \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}