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The Ordinary Elite - Episode 24 - Scotland's drug death crisis
Season 1
Episode 24
Published 2 years, 10 months ago
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The Ordinary Elite is a new Scottish podcast series brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence practitioner and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In our 24th episode we're joined by Annmarie Ward, the founder and CEO of the charity Faces & Voices of Recovery UK. FAVOR UK challenge the stigma of addiction and are campaigning for a proposed Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill in the Scottish Parliament. We last spoke to Annmarie in April this year and asked her what progress had been made to address the fact Scotland has the highest death rate from drug overdoses in Europe?