Why Drug Deaths Are Rising in the UK | The War on Drugs

The UK is experiencing record drug deaths. Every year seems to break a new record in the number of people dying.

But it wasn’t always like this. In the early 2000s, drug deaths were falling. What happened?

This is how a faction in the British Conservative Party has completely restructured UK drug treatment, wrecking a system that had been considered world-leading – and how tens of thousands of people may have died as a result.

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