By Professor John Robertson OBA
From Public Health Scotland, the above table, latest data, showing that NHS Ayrshire and Arran saw 99.4% of all referrals for problematic use of drugs and/or alcohol within three weeks. The official target is 90%.
There were 649 referrals in that quarter.
In the previous quarter, NHS Ayrshire and Arran was also near the top with 99.3% seen within the target.
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Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
What a great achievement! Well done to all the Health Professionals and Support staff in whatever area in Scotland they represent.
The majority of folk in Scotland appreciate all your hard work and effort, even if the “Scottish Media” try to block it.
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Expect the new Labour MP for the area to carp about the lost 0.6% – CHANGE under Labour will soon sort that out ! LoL !
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On the Lothian question re NHS Board performance, dare I suggest the much promoted Douglas Alexander may be the man to get to the bottom ? Of it I might add… https://members.parliament.uk/member/632/contact
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O/T
#ReleaseTheSausuages
Hands up who did not even know that they, the sausages, had been taken.
Indeed most of us thought it was Hostages that had been taken and so should be released– but it appears Keir Starmer apparently knows best as he mentioned them (the captured Sausages) in his speech today at the Labour party conference in Liverpool.
Next Q is this.
Is Keir Starmer Liz Truss in a man’s suit ?
(Yes or No).
Or is he more similar to Boris Johnson ?
(Also Yes or No).
Also who in Scotland would now proudly admit that they actually voted Labour in the recent GE in July of this year ?
Those who would indeed do that very thing with pride , then I for one, neither care nor dare to meet them.
I mean how long have they, Labour UK, been in office now as the UK government ?
How many missteps, significant errors of judgements , bad policy decisions and also controversy surrounding them with the revelation that their leader ,the Labour PM, and some of his Cabinet ministers accepted various financial donations for clothes etc from a Labour Peer (as did the PM’s wife) also the PM received freebies worth thousands of pounds ?
Also not forgetting all of the (former) pledges made by them which have now been broken by them since they took over as the new UK government, where they, Labour, are laying all blame upon some other political parties for their , Labour UK, failing to deliver those former promises/pledges that they made (promised/pledged) in their GE campaign.
(As in they, Labour, are pointing the finger at the Tories in the UK/England and the SNP in Scotland-meanwhile Labour in Wales are blameless apparently-which seems a tad suspicious and convenient -Corrupt even as a position really- for a Labour UK government to absolve all blame from a Labour Welsh government).
Now it seems that Keir Starmer cannot even make his first end of conference speech as the new PM without also making a mistake .
As in #ReleaseTheSausages.
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Oh no!
Does that mean we ate hostages for tea??!! 😱
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“Does that mean we ate hostages for tea??!!
Nope , dinnae you worry yourself, as what you ate was more than likely sausages of the ‘Porkies’ kind which , funnily enough , is often what we hear coming from the Labour party .
Big Porkies that is.
Starmer even delivered some today in his conference speech.
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It takes two years for drug users to recover. Alcoholics need to detox with 24 hour care. Or they can die. Alcohol does more damage to the human body over time. Drug users die younger. The Scottish Gov funding addiction care £250million over five years. More proper, total abstinence, rehabs are opening. There was a decline. Local authorities social care programmes would not fund them. Keeping people on methadone for years. Just as bad as heroin. People need specialist help to get drug and alcohol free. Some local health boards would not fund it. People had to pay for it. The quickest way to poverty is alcohol and drug addiction. People cannot work.
The way statistics are calculated or reported can be misleading. Scotland reports in total numbers. Other places report in different categories. Death by heroin, death by poisoning, Death by accidental overdose. It makes the total statistics appear lower. Not reported as a total of percentage or proportion. Many suicides are alcoholic or drug related, under the influence of alcohol or drug. Crime is alcohol and drug related. Committed under the influence. Reducing addictionreduces crime. Crime is gender related. Males commit more crime. MUP has reduced alcohol intake and reduce deaths. Scotland used to drink 25% more than the South. That has reduced.
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