Woke Scottish Govt to Replace Word ‘Addict’ with ‘Person with Problematic Substance Use’
Drug abusers are to be treated like they have “a health problem” rather than a propensity to indulge in self-destructive and sometimes criminal behaviour in Scotland, with terms like “alcoholic” and “addict” scrapped in favour of woke alternatives.
The Scottish Government, roughly equivalent to a U.S. state government, wants alcoholism and drug abuse to be treated as a health condition in the belief that this might do something about Scotland’s problem with drugs deaths, in particular, with fatalities up 5 per cent in 2020 to 1,339 — the highest annual death toll yet recorded.
To that end, the left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP) which has charge of the government and much of the public sector is leading a politically correct campaign to have terms such as “alcoholic”, “addict”, and the more pejorative “junkie” replaced obfuscatory bureaucrat-speak terms like “person with problematic substance use”, “person with harmful alcohol use”, and “person with problematic drug use”, the BBC reports.- READ MORE
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