This is why Scotland needs the Right to Recovery Bill Without it, people like Jade will never be given a real chance to escape. Jade is a young woman in Glasgow. She is in her twenties, living in hostel accommodation, carrying the scars of abscesses and hospital stays. She is vulnerable, frightened, and in her own words “sick of it.” Every single day the state prescribes her a cocktail that would kill the average person outright: 110mg of methadone 200mg of diamorphine (pharmaceutical heroin) injected 30mg of Valium 475mg of pregabalin Jade herself says her script is an overdose. This is presented as “enhanced treatment.” But it isn’t treatment. It’s sedation. It’s containment. It’s the quiet abandonment of a young woman who deserves so much more. And here is the cruel truth: Jade has no way to move on. No door to residential rehab. No path to abstinence-based recovery. No ladder out. She’s even absorbed the system’s language, calling it a “lifestyle,” as if being numbed every day on heroin, methadone and tranquillisers is a choice she made. It isn’t. She wants out. She is sick of it. Meanwhile, she is left in a hostel, heavily sedated, easy prey, and at constant risk of sexual assault, violence and exploitation. In this condition she cannot protect herself, cannot defend her dignity, and cannot build a future. This is why the Right to Recovery Bill matters. Because it would give people like Jade the legal right to access treatment that leads to recovery, not just endless sedation. If we did this to any other group of young people, kept them in hostels, injected them with heroin every day, numbed them with tranquillisers, and called it care there would be outrage. Keeping people alive is not enough. Scotland owes Jade, and thousands like her, the right to recover.