Rising death toll is what matters

Madam, – Now the Scottish Parliament and other forums are debating as to who has the authority to declare the current drugs epidemic a public health emergency, not what they are going to do about it.

In the meantime, Scottish drug addicts are dying at the rate of a hundred a month and rising.

Perhaps our debaters should realise that whether it is called an epidemic, a public health

emergency or a scourge, it all comes to the same thing – death.

If the worthy politicians and activists were to leave their cosy debating chambers and patrol the streets of our towns and cities looking for the suppliers of drugs and reporting them to the police, they could then tell themselves they were taking practical steps to stop the epidemic/public health emergency.

Then again, politicians don’t do.

They just speak. George Dobbie.

51 Airlie Street, Alyth.