The same delivery gap is wrecking Scottish culture. Last year, Yousaf pledged an additional £100m for the arts, a sum that was supposed to include a £6.6m grant-in-aid budget cut from Creative Scotland, and then reinstated.

Creative Scotland planned to use £3m of that money for the Open Fund, but with the Scottish Government unable to confirm release of the money, it had no choice, it said, but to shut it down.

The Campaign for the Arts is now saying that without further action, Scotland could face a “cultural catastrophe”.

The demographic affected by drug deaths might appear to be very different to the demographic affected by arts cuts, but in fact they are similar: the poorest both dying in disproportionate numbers, and being disproportionately denied the opportunity for the kind of self-expression care-experienced author Jenni Fagan has said kept her alive.SNP is on a Doomsday cult mission towards complete self-destruction