Maree Todd: “The Tartan Army did an amazing job; they are the best ambassadors a country could ever have.”

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.

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

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

It is important not to stigmatise the use of antidepressants or other mental health medicines.