UK Government minister responsible for drug laws, Kit Malthouse, who is responsible for crime and policing for the UK Government, told MSPs that he did not believe that poverty is an underlying cause of drug use. Malthouse said that “drugs and violence drive poverty, not that poverty drives them”.
The data from the National Records of Scotland revealed that “people in the most deprived areas were 18 times as likely to have a drug-related death as those in the least deprived areas”.
The study found that the ratio has almost doubled in the space of 20 years.
In the early 2000s, those in the most deprived areas were around 10-times as likely to have a drug-related death as those in the least deprived areas.
UK minister criticised for 'condescending' view that poverty doesn't drive drug deaths (yahoo.com)
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