'More addicts fined than treated'

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.