Scotland - drug death capital

Dundee is not her constituency

https://www.ft.com/content/819ba68d-4ece-4e03-8b23-f8eced656d66

So, once again, I won't click your links ever so you'll have to summarise the gist of it yourself.

Maybe best you remain ignorant of SNP failures

I've been very satisfied with the SNP's efforts over the years. I assume you mean that I'd hate them if I saw them as the usual evil left-wing boogeyman nonsense, but at the end of the day, all that means is what I like about them is what you hate about them and vice versa. It's meaningless. It just means we disagree with each other.

And unfortunately for you, I'm eligible to vote in Scottish elections. My opinion probably counts more than yours does!

(If you're also a voter in Scotland, then of course our opinions count equally for Scottish purposes)

Fail, fail, fail - is Sturgeon - Style over substance?

If you say they're failing, they're probably doing something right. You only make the effort for people who pose a real threat to the Tories.

SNP?

https://transformdrugs.org/blog/scotland-is-drug-death-capital-of-the-world-heres-how-we-can-shed-that-title

No. Dundee has been dubbed the drug death capital by the press. Dubiously. But it's not Scotland, it's specifically Dundee. Which is not Sturgeon's constituency.

"It is a reasonable criticism to say that this government should have done more earlier, and I accept that.
But I am determined that we will provide this national mission with the leadership, focus, and resources that it needs.

To help with this, I have appointed Angela Constance as a Minister dedicated to leading this work and reporting directly to me.
She will work with the Drugs Deaths Taskforce which is already doing very good work and I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone contributing their time and expertise to it.
Part of Angela’s task will be ensuring that this work is embedded across all areas of government, but particularly in our efforts to improve mental health, tackle homelessness and ensure a humane and responsive justice system.
She will also lead work with partners across the country, and in particular with grassroots and third sector organisations.
And she will ensure that we listen more to those with real-life experience of drug addiction - those who live or have lived with addiction, and also with their families who so valiantly try to support them.

We will also tackle all aspects of this problem. The focus of my statement today is on treatment and support services. But there are many other areas that will require improvement too.
For example, like many MSPs, I know that the widespread availability of benzodiazepines - street benzos - is scarring too many of our communities.

That’s why Angela Constance and Police Scotland are urgently considering - with people from those communities - what more we can do to address that issue.
And we do recognise that this requires, not just action to disrupt supply, important thought that is, but also improvements to treatment that are necessary to stem demand.

In what remains of this financial year – until the end of March – we will provide an extra £5 million so that work can get underway urgently.

Beyond that, from the start of the new financial year until the end of the next Parliament in 2026, we intend to allocate an additional £50 million of funding each year.

This funding – a total of £250 million over the next parliament - will support further investment in a range of community-based interventions, including primary prevention, and an expansion of residential rehabilitation. We will also commit additional funding, if required, to improve toxicology services and enhance public health surveillance of drugs issues, which is essential to effective and timely interventions."

Where would we be without our labels?

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scotlands-drugs-deaths-demand-for-ministerial-statement-as-pressure-mounts-on-nicola-sturgeon-3330622