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Mourning my son among graves of other drug victims

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Newer headstones in an Oban graveyard tell a story of a lost generation in this tourist town on Scotland’s west coast.

Jayne Donn says her son, James, died in 2022 from a drug overdose aged 29.

Tanya McCuish’s sister Lisa grew up next to James in a street looking down on Oban Bay.

She started taking diazepam, which is typically used to treat anxiety, seizures or muscle spasms, and then started using heroin. She died three months before James at the age of 42.

James’s best friend also lies alongside him and Lisa. He was 30 when he died of a drug overdose.

Both Tanya and Jayne say the Scottish government must do more to save lives.


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