Urgent plea for safe and secure psychiatric facility in Caithness By Alan Hendry
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Updated: 09:45, 26 February 2021
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Steven Szyfelbain on the anchor near Wick harbour this week. An anchor features in the logo of No More Lost Souls. Picture: Alan Hendry
An urgent plea has gone out for a safe and secure psychiatric facility to be created in Caithness to cope with the area s growing mental health crisis.
Campaign group No More Lost Souls maintains that mental health is a bigger problem in the county than Covid-19, based on the number of suicides. Its members are seeking to reduce the stigma surrounding the subject.
Pilot drug and alcohol addiction treatment programme running in Far North could be rolled out Scotland-wide
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Updated: 09:18, 18 December 2020
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A DRUG and alcohol abuse reduction system being piloted in Caithness could be adopted throughout Scotland.
That is what local MSP, Gail Ross, was told by Scottish public health minister, Joe FitzPatrick, when she raised the issue at Holyrood.
The Caithness, Sutherland and Ross SNP MSP said the pilot programme in Caithness was first implemented in Iceland two decades ago and has been very effective in reducing substance and alcohol abuse among young people.
Caithness pilot on drug abuse could be adopted across Scotland By Gordon Calder Published: 17:15, 17 December 2020
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A DRUG and alcohol abuse reduction system being piloted in Caithness could be adopted throughout Scotland.
That is what local MSP, Gail Ross, was told by Scottish public health minister, Joe FitzPatrick, when she raised the issue at Holyrood.
The Caithness, Sutherland and Ross SNP MSP said the pilot programme in Caithness was first implemented in Iceland two decades ago and has been very effective in reducing substance and alcohol abuse among young people.