From the Scottish Government yesterday but, of the MSM, only reported in the Herald, this major announcement:

First Minister John Swinney will today call for a new collective approach to reduce deaths and harms from drugs and alcohol, as he addresses a summit on drugs deaths in Edinburgh.

It comes as a new Alcohol and Drugs Fund, which will provide £36.9 million to frontline services and organisations working with people affected by alcohol and drugs, is launched. 

The summit, organised by Public Health Scotland, will bring together health board chief executives, local authority leaders, justice representatives and third-sector partners alongside people with experience of drug and alcohol use, including representatives from family organisations and recovery groups.

Full text at: https://www.gov.scot/news/fm-launches-36-9-million-fund-to-reduce-drug-and-alcohol-deaths/

What is this additional to?

NGS Scotland’s target-busting 95% drug and alcohol treatment in three weeks or less

That should read ‘NHS!’

Latest figures show Scotland’s world-first opioid overdose reversal programme kits being issued in ever greater numbers to fight the effects of the plague of English drug gangs and to reduce the load in hospitals

Thistle Centre Successes – The Herald headlines a confused Tory quote on drug addiction to maintain their proud record of untrustworthy fiction

Are Scottish drug deaths already falling?

Plummeting drug deaths and target-busting treatment but they desperately hang on to Scotland’s past

Are Scottish drug deaths being fairly contrasted?

Drug deaths in England being seriously under-counted