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Expert team to map out new strategy for Scotland on drugs

Reverend John Matthews has come across a number of drug dependent parishioners since he gave up the world of business to become a minister in the Church of Scotland.

But the Reverend has noticed a difference in recent years.

Methadone was being prescribed as an alternative for ‘recovering’ addicts fifteen years ago in his north Glasgow parish, he says.