AS THE national mental health awareness week continues, local services have detailed what help is on offer for anyone in Shetland who may be struggling. Mind.
A CANDLE lighting event will take place in Lerwick this evening (Thursday) to mark International Overdose Awareness Day. The event will be held at the flower park between 8pm and 10pm, and it will offer people the chance to light a candle to remember those who have died as a.
RESEARCH is being carried out with the aim of establishing what the drugs and alcohol culture is like for young people in Shetland - and what health officials and organisations can do in response. The peer research is fully youth led, and it is being steered by the OPEN Project.
NHS Shetland’s alcohol and drug development officer says the conclusions of a new report on the impact of minimum unit pricing (MUP) are “encouraging” - but she added that it is difficult to say how the initiative has affected local people. Wendy McConnachie said it was.