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Efforts to tackle Scotland’s drug death crisis have been branded a failure as another record number of people dead was reported. The official figures for 2019 showed that the number who died increased again, from last year’s record, to 1264. In Glasgow, the number of men and women who died from a drug related death was similar to last year’s record total. In 2019 there were 279 deaths in the city, just one fewer than in 2018. There were 191 men and 88 women who died. It is an average of more than five drug related deaths a week in Glasgow. The changing pattern of drug use ...

Drug-related deaths: Dundee records 72 deaths in 2019 Updated: December 17, 2020, 11:02 am © DC Thomson Drug deaths across Tayside are among the worst in Europe – for the second year running. A report out today by National Records Scotland (NRS) revealed 118 drugs deaths occurred across Tayside in 2019, an increase of nine from the previous year. In total there were 1,264 drug-related deaths registered in Scotland in 2019, 6% (77) more than in 2018. This was the largest number ever recorded, and more than double that of ten years earlier. Tayside health boards statistics were among the top...

In 2000 the figure was 292 across Scotland. By 2010 it was 485. In Glasgow in 2000 it was 96 and by 2009 it had increased to 135, before a fall the following year. A decade later and the latest available statistics, for 2019, released today show it has more than doubled in the last decade. Anecdotal evidence from people involved in drug support services expect the trend has continued and even more people have been dying in 2020. There has been an increase in recent years in the presence of benzodiazepines, particularly so called ‘street valium’ or ‘blues’ produced illegall...