Maree Todd: “I would like to think over the next very few months steps being taken forward to ensure that there is access to late-day…”

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

Against an increasingly toxic and unpredictable drugs supply, this rise is deeply concerning and unacceptable.

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

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.