The Scottish Government has announced an additional £2m for residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation programmes.

The Additional Placement Fund aims to help local alcohol and drug partnerships ensure placements are available in areas of high demand.

The funding was unveiled on Tuesday, just weeks after the Scottish Government reported 1,185 alcohol deaths and 1,017 deaths from drug misuse in Scotland in 2024.

Drugs and alcohol minister Maree Todd said: “There’s no getting away from the fact that we are in a challenging place in Scotland this year.

“We lost over a thousand people to drugs and over a thousand people to alcohol. We are losing people every day, and we need to be working hard and at pace to improve that situation.”

Local alcohol and drug partnerships can use the new addi

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