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Drug-related Deaths in Scotland in 2021 - Methodological Annexes

Drug-related Deaths in Scotland in 2021 - Methodological Annexes

Last update: 28 July 2022

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Annex A:

The definition of drug-related deaths used for these statistics (the National Records of Scotland (NRS) implementation of the ‘baseline’ definition for the UK Drugs Strategy)

Annex B:

Some other definitions of drug-related deaths
Annex C: Data sources
Annex D: Fluctuations in the numbers of drug-related deaths  
Annex E: So-called ‘New Psychoactive Substances’
Annex F: A consistent series of drug-related death numbers, based on the classification at the end of the latest year covered by the publication
Annex G: Drug-related Deaths – comparison with other countries
Annex H: ‘Prescribable’ and ‘street’ benzodiazepines

 

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