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Britain has suffered some of the highest drugs deaths in the developed world.

The Green Party says this shows that the war on drugs has failed,

and that a more liberal approach is the answer.

Others say that it's progressive drugs policy

that is increasing deaths.

So who's right?

Hello and welcome to Reality Check.

Less spin more stats.

I'm Michael Simmons, the Spectator's Economics Editor.

On Monday, Zach Polanski, the Green Party's leader, said this.

So-called war on drugs has clearly failed over and over again.

In fact, we have the highest drug deaths in Europe.

And for the past 14 years, every single year, drug deaths has increased.

So the war on drugs isn't working, and so the question has to be, what do you do

about it? So his claim is that we have the highest drug death in Europe and that for every year of

the past 14, drugs deaths have increased. And in the words of the Green Party, there's a simple

solution here and that's to end the prohibition of drugs. Broadly on the numbers,

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