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Doctors criticise ‘reckless’ drug abuse guidance

A group of doctors and drug experts has attacked the “reckless” advice given by a government agency that heroin addicts should quit the drug after the recent spate of anthrax deaths among users.

The group demanded in a letter to Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon that the Government take emergency action to stop the outbreak from claiming more lives.