By Professor John Robertson
From Public Health Scotland today:
During 2023/24 Quarter 2 (1 July 2023 to 30 September 2023):
- 8,176 Take-Home Naloxone (THN) kits were issued.
- 6,264 THN kits were issued by services based in the community.
- Community THN supplies included 2,112 kits issued by non-drug treatment services. Of these, 67% (1,422) were supplied by Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs (SFAD).
- 403 kits were issued by prisons in Scotland.
- 1,334 kits were supplied via prescriptions dispensed by community pharmacies.
- 137 THN kits were provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
- A total of 507 kits were supplied by peers (288 in the community and 219 in prisons).
At the end of 2023/24 Quarter 2, the ‘reach’ of the NNP (percentage of people at risk of opioid overdose who have been supplied with THN) was estimated to be 73.2%, an increase of 1.5 percentage points compared to 2023/24 Quarter 1 (71.7%).
This positive news on the use of the opioid overdose reversal drug Naloxone, a world-first for the Scottish Government, comes on top of previous, uncovered by the media, news on a massive fall in drug-related hospital admissions, mostly due to opioid overdoses.
See:
Health Scotland on April 16, 2024, at:
After a pilot phase ending in 2018, the Scottish Government began to embed Naloxone opioid overdose reversal kits across NHS Scotland. Shortly after, the kits which can be administered by anyone, were adopted by Police Scotland, ambulances and prisons, and made available to libraries, community centres, taxi drivers and to the friends and relatives of users.
Scotland was the first country in the world to introduce a national naloxone programme, empowering individuals, families, friends and communities to reverse an opiate overdose.
Anyone in Scotland can now order a free naloxone kit from national charity Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol & Drugs (SFAD) and be trained in its use.
Opioids such as those found in prescription painkillers are now responsible for 81% of all drug deaths in Scotland.
The above dramatic decline can only be attributed to this world-leading, but unknown in Scotland, initiative.
BBC Scotland? Sturgeon cancels, Victims bill, murder, murder…
BBC Health? Drug dealers offer BBC team deadly opioids! BBC Scotland’s Disclosure team should be on this as they can get a Naloxone kit easily before they go.
Talking-up Scotland / Scottish media fact checking is like shooting fish in a barrel 
Cue unionist outrage at SNP Gov. for the cost for treating ”druggies” ; if figures had FALLEN , then cue unionist outrage at SNP Gov. failing poor drug users .
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That is some drop in drug-related hospital admissions!
No wonder our “Scottish Media” would not want anyone to know about it. 🙂
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Just out of interest – and apologies if this program has been mentioned in previous threads – yesterday while looking for something else I came across information about work which is about to start on building a new Highlands and Islands Residential Recovery Centre. What was interesting was that funding has been secured via the Scottish Government’s Rapid Residential Rehabilitation Capacity Program. One wonders if the MSM in Scotland has even heard of this?
It will be run by the Church of Scotland’s Crossreach which provides social care to all age groups throughout Scotland.
J&J
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Guess what I found in BBC Corrections & Clarifications page..
BBC Scotland
Radio and online, 2 & 3 April 2024
“In BBC Scotland’s coverage of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, reference was made in some of our output to the Act making it a criminal offence in Scotland to make “derogatory comments” based on the protected characteristics of age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex. This was inaccurate and we should have referred to the Act creating a new crime where it is an offence if someone communicates material or behaves in a threatening or abusive manner with the intention of “stirring up hatred” based on these protected characteristics. We apologise for any confusion caused and have reminded our teams of the importance of accuracy in our output”.
22/04/2024
So they “apologise” for “any confusion caused” and they have “reminded” their teams “of the importance of accuracy ” in their “output” ( so how many times will they need ‘reminding’ before they start to be more professional and diligent in their “output”……as this seems to be a habit they are unable to break……me thinks just ‘reminding’ them is falling on deaf ears….or is the BBC via this corrections & clarifications page just going through the motions….seems so…as the above is not a solitary or first instance in an ‘error’ being made by them)
“Confusion caused”……no worries then is it ?…… as this is just a national broadcaster with a licence to broadcast news across Scotland …..so thanks for apologising but could you perhaps consider intervening and asking WTF is going on…..because this is not the first time they, as a branch office of the BBC, have been inaccurate in what they broadcast…..which leaves some people to surmise if it is , as an action, deliberate with an intention to have negative consequences for someone…..who just so happens to be the someone this particular branch of the BBC is constantly attacking……day after day after day……
So I have a master plan…instead of the BBC having to have a Verify Unit…and a need for a BBC Corrections & clarifications page…..how about just employing people who can actually do the job, via being professional and competent oh and accurate in both their research & investigation, prior to the news being broadcast…..in fact they, or the political editor of the programme, could verify that the news was accurate before it was broadcast on their programme to the Nation.
TBH if that is really too much for the BBC news teams in Scotland to be able to do, as a supposed news provider of the supposed ‘news where we are’ , then it does question their right to be able to broadcast news at all…… but also via Ofcom (currently sleeping on the job) a question mark should be raised as to the BBC being allowed to have a licence to broadcast news in Scotland…..when there has been a succession of errors made by BBC Scotland’s news teams that greatly impact people politically to their detriment……….in particular one party mostly.
Errors ,where only via complaints made to the BBC, are these errors then highlighted but actually they are, as errors, hidden away in a section of the BBC website that a majority of people are unaware exists…….mud sticks as does fake news……the BBC HQ could also look at the lack of balance in BBC Scotland’s news re their political coverage as they tend to shy away from seeking out any of the branch office managers of political parties in Scotland when their respective HQ is in trouble, makes any unwelcome/cruel/useless political decisions, are incompetent, break pledges via U Turns, are involved in scandals, overspend on their budget for UK government projects, fail to complete on time UK government projects etc etc etc
( Plus why is everything the Scottish government intends to do or does is then, by the BBC here, labelled as “controversial” or a “fiasco” or a “scandal”…..who decides that ?)
The BBC Scotland news teams , are not as reluctant to constantly seek out and broadcast news ,that they consider to be negative, that is news connected to the party that currently are in government in Scotland and also even go as far as door stopping them to ensure that they, as politicians, are cornered into giving a statement………so if they can do that to one party then why not act in the same way for all political parties as in dishing out the same treatment to the various leaders in the various Scottish (INO) branch offices…..after all news is news in politics irrespective of where it comes from….a news team should not be selective as to who and what they decide to promote and broadcast as the service they are supposed to provide is one of covering all topical news to include all politics (as in to include all political parties)…..and not as we have seen just promote a barrage of #SNPBAD news coverage. (which contrasts with some of their more amicable style of news coverage that they tend to broadcast when interacting with branch office managers & their respective Shadow ministers…who they also give a recurring platform to also spew out #SNPBAD)
I am sure that any suggestion I make to BBC HQ would also fall on deaf ears….as apparently those tasked with the job of responding to complaints seem to fall back on template replies as opposed to committing the BBC to rectifying what many a viewer & listener highlights as a major repetitive problem in their output……
That problem being too much propaganda, bias & well below standard political news that is many a time inaccurate and also with far too much input from opposition parties giving their skewed versions of any topic related to the Scottish government…which as opposition parties well they would oppose it would they not….the clue being in the word ‘Opposition’…..so why then does the BBC here ask them their opinion ?
That’s rhetorical….we all know why they ask them….for reasons all too obvious….and seems the ‘errors’ the BBC here are making in their political news coverage also seems obvious as to reasons why……
NMRN
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This today via MSM Monitor Twitter a/c:
“The BBC has apologised for broadcasting incorrect information after Police Scotland charged Peter Murrell. The apology, as yet, has not been made public but we can confirm it relates to a news bulletin and the charge against Mr Murrell”
See what I mean in my above comment re their corrections and clarification wage on their website…..sorry but you have to assume that they, the BBC, are seriously compromised by their bias against the SNP and too their allegiance to political parties who support their UK hence they are recklessly promoting fake news against one party while carefully filtering out similar news relating to others…..the only alternative deduction is that they are complete amateurs whose position as ones broadcasting news to the Nation is well past it’s sell by date as a position that should be allowed to continue…….
NMRN
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*wage….
Page…..
Another (wee) error by me……not as catastrophic as the so called ‘errors’ made by the BBC though…..but talking of “wage” how any of them at the BBC Scotland news teams are entitled to a wage is beyond me…LOL
NMRN
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More total abstinence proper rehabs are needed. The Scottish Gov is funding more proper rehab facilities £250Million over 5 years. Opened in the Borders and Dundee. One now opening in the Highlands and Islands? People are seeking help younger. More information is available. AA and NA have much information for help. Some people lack dopamine in the brain.
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just goes to show what marvellous results can be acheived when government help NHS well done to both in Scotland.Worryingly i recently discovered the figures for H5N1 avian flu spreading globally its been found in wild animals but also now in cow herds in USA check out Scotland figures on http://www.scot.gov so many places closed down and isolated then cleansing processes put in place H5N1 kills 60% of what it infects we have to be worried that it might mutate with covid that spreads easily.
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