Annemarie Ward 💜
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💜 CEO of @FAVORUK - Advocating for those suffering & recovering from #Addiction -Interested in Justice, Mercy & Good Faith ✝️ Character is Destiny. 💜
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1/3 Today's debate in the Scottish Government is nothing short of a slow-motion car crash, with policymakers willfully ignoring global evidence while steering Scotland further into drug policy disaster. Instead of fixing our broken treatment system and backing recovery, they are doubling down on failure, pushing policies that have already devastated communities in Portugal, Oregon, and British Columbia. Let’s be crystal clear: decriminalisation isn’t saving lives—it’s killing more people. In Portugal, drug deaths have skyrocketed, treatment services are overrun, and Lisbon has become a hotspot for open-air drug markets. Oregon’s so-called "progressive" policy has turned its cities into lawless wastelands of public drug use, overdoses, and cartel activity, forcing the government to scramble to re-criminalise drugs just a few years later. And yet, here we are—watching Scottish politicians repeat these same catastrophic mistakes, pretending that more "harm reduction" will work when all the evidence screams the opposite. This isn’t just ignorance—it’s negligence. If Scotland keeps chasing these failed fantasies of decriminalisation, we’ll be standing in the wreckage of a policy that normalises addiction, fuels overdoses, and abandons the very people it claims to help. Where is the accountability? Where is the outrage? The Right to Recovery Bill offers a real solution—a legal right to treatment, a commitment to recovery, and an end to the bureaucratic blockade that keeps people trapped in addiction. It’s time to wake up. Stop following the junk science of failed decriminalisation and start fighting for real recovery.
Annemarie Ward 💜28,944 次观看 • 1 年前
As many of you know, the evidence sessions for the Right to Recovery Bill are underway. Some have already taken place, and I’m due to give evidence this Wednesday. Clare Haughey has told us that only one of us — either myself or Stevie Wishart 🏴 — will be allowed to speak. (See screen shot below from Douglas Ross Let that sink in. Stevie is the person who first came up with the idea for this Bill. He wrote the original draft almost five years ago. No one knows this Bill more intimately. No one can speak to its spirit, intent, and practical importance with more lived or professional authority than him. Five years. That’s how long this has been stalled, delayed, and kicked into the long grass — and now, at the eleventh hour, the people who built it from the ground up are being told to stand back. What makes this even more outrageous is that the same restriction does not apply to the quangos, the statutory services, the ADPs, or the council departments. They’ve been allowed to send multiple people to give evidence — sometimes two, three, or more from the same organisation. Most of them, it should be said, are on the Scottish Government’s payroll. This is not a balanced or fair process. It is skewed — rigged in favour of those defending a failing status quo. The very system that the Bill is trying to change has been given the microphone, while the voices of genuine reformers are being silenced.
Annemarie Ward 💜20,375 次观看 • 1 年前
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