Maree Todd: “My heartfelt condolences go out to everyone who has lost a loved one to drug use.”

Each and every death is a tragedy, and even more so because every life lost to drug harms is preventable.

While this funding will enable services to resume from October, I recognise that islanders have lost confidence in the reliability of these links.

It’s really painful that what we’ve seen is a rise in drugs deaths in 2025 compared to the year before. I would have hoped, with all of the work that we are doing across the system, we wouldn’t be facing that situation.

We have taken action to support women and health professionals to learn more about menstrual health issues such as endometriosis, the symptoms and treatment options but we know there is still a long way to go.