Minister for Drugs & Alcohol Policy and Sport
Maree Todd was appointed as Minister for Drugs & Alcohol Policy and Sport in June 2025.
Responsibilities
Supports the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care.
Specific responsibilities are:
- tackling and reducing the harm of problem substance use
- supporting the rehabilitation and recovery of those living with drug or alcohol dependency
- reducing drug related deaths
- alcohol treatment
- reducing drinking at hazardous and harmful levels
- alcohol harm prevention, harm reduction and recovery
- sport and physical activity
Biography
She grew up in the West Highlands, attending Ullapool High School and then studying pharmacy and prescribing at Robert Gordon's and Strathclyde, as well as taking an ante-natal teaching diploma at the University of Bedfordshire.
A pharmacist by profession, Maree Todd worked in NHS Highland for 20 years, mainly as a mental health pharmacist in a psychiatric hospital. She also contributed to SIGN guidance on perinatal mental health.
She was previously the Minister for Children and Young People, and was appointed as Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport in March 2023.
- read more about Maree Todd on the Scottish Parliament website