More than £1.5 million is to be spent on projects helping people in Dumfries and Galloway affected by drug use over the next five years.
We Are With You, Aberlour and NHS Dumfries and Galloway will receive the cash from the Scottish Government’s Improvement Fund and Children and Families Fund.
The latest figures showed that 44 people were believed to have died as a result of substance abuse in Dumfries and Galloway in 2021 – 15 more than the previous year.
