EMERGENCY crews have reported a 21 per cent rise in drug or alcohol-related call-outs across over the festive period.

Paramedics attended 343 incidents across the Capital between December 1 and January 4.

The statistics, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, have sparked Tory claims that the SNP government is failing to get to grips with a growing crisis.

Reported by the Edinburgh News. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.