Scotland's new First Minister has been urged to put the country’s shameful drug deaths crisis to the top of his list of priorities.
Critics believe Humza Yousaf and other leadership candidates placed too little focus on the enduring emergency, claiming the SNP have failed to make any brave decisions while the deaths have piled up.
Despite increased funding, the latest annual death count is 12 per cent worse than when the short-lived Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce was formed in 2019.
