Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2007 - Drug Misuse Information ...

Drug-related deaths in Scotland
C5.6 Drug related deaths by selected drugs involved 1 : 2006
NHS board and council area of residence
Heroin/ Methadone Diazepam 3 Cocaine Ecstasy Temazepam 3 Alcohol
morphine 2
Scotland 260 97 78 33 13 10 131
by NHS Board
Ayrshire & Arran 12 9 5 1 - - 8
Borders - - 1 - - 1 1
Dumfries & Galloway 3 - 2 - - - 3
Fife 15 3 2 - 1 1 3
Forth Valley 17 1 9 - 4 1 6
Grampian 42 4 18 10 1 2 19
Greater Glasgow & Clyde 4 97 58 9 11 3 2 45
Highland 4 6 2 4 1 - 1 3
Lanarkshire 26 7 3 6 3 - 14
Lothian 12 9 16 4 1 1 21
Orkney - - - - - - -
Shetland 2 - 1 - - - 1
Tayside 27 4 8 - - 1 7
Western Isles 1 - - - - - -
by council area
Aberdeen City 22 3 11 6 1 1 8
Aberdeenshire 15 1 6 4 - - 7
Angus 9 - 3 - - - 1
Argyll & Bute 1 - - - - - 1
Clackmannanshire 6 - 4 - 1 -
Dumfries & Galloway 3 - 2 - - - 3
Dundee City 11 4 1 - - 1 4
East Ayrshire 5 2 3 - - - 4
East Dunbartonshire 2 - - - - - -
East Lothian 2 - 1 1 - - 2
East Renfrewshire 1 - - 1 - - 1
Edinburgh, City of 8 8 12 1 1 - 14
Eilean Siar 1 - - - - - -
Falkirk 8 1 2 - 1 - 4
Fife 15 3 2 - 1 1 3
Glasgow City 64 45 4 7 2 2 29
Highland 5 2 4 1 - 1 2
Inverclyde 6 4 2 - - - 3
Midlothian 2 - 1 1 - 1 3
Moray 5 - 1 - - 1 4
North Ayrshire 5 5 2 - - - 3
North Lanarkshire 16 6 3 1 1 - 8
Orkney Islands - - - - - - -
Perth & Kinross 7 - 4 - - - 2
Renfrewshire 14 3 2 2 1 - 5
Scottish Borders - - 1 - - 1 1
Shetland Islands 2 - 1 - - - 1
South Ayrshire 2 2 - 1 - - 1
South Lanarkshire 13 2 - 5 2 - 7
Stirling 3 - 3 - 2 1 2
West Dunbartonshire 7 5 1 1 - - 6
West Lothian - 1 2 1 - - 2
Health Impact
1 Individual deaths often involved more than one of these drugs. The numbers given are mentions of the drug and should not be added to give total deaths.
2 It is believed that that for the overwhelming majority of cases where morphine has been identified in post-mortem toxicological tests its presence is a result of heroin use. This table therefore shows a combined figure
for 'heroin/morphine'.
3 Each year there are also a small number of mentions of unspecified benzodiazepines.
4 New NHS Board areas including parts of former Argyll & Clyde.
- (zero)
Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS).
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