Elderly drug addicts need special homes

SCOTLAND must follow the example of other European countries and create specialist drug-user care homes to help an ageing “Trainspotting generation”, experts have warned.

The number of drug users more than 40-years-old has increased in the last five years.

Dave Liddell, director of Scottish Drugs Forum, said: “Many people have had a drug problem now from the mid-80s.

“On one level, the fact that we have managed to keep so many people alive for so long is a positive thing, but it highlights the fact that a drug problem is very difficult to recover from.”