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National Statistics: Drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2011

Table 3: Drug-related deaths by selected drugs reported1, Scotland, 1996 - 2011

Year All drug-related deaths Heroin / morphine 2 Meth-adone Benzodiazepines Cocaine Ecstasy Amphet-amines Alcohol
Any benzo-diazepine of which:
Diaz-epam Temaz-epam
annual averages:
1996-2000 260 128 74 .. 116 47 6 7 .. 91
1997-2001 278 155 67 .. 130 41 9 9 .. 102
1996 244 84 100 .. 84 48 3 9 .. 87
1997 224 74 86 .. 93 33 5 2 .. 70
1998 249 121 64 .. 113 58 4 3 .. 86
1999 291 167 63 .. 142 56 12 8 .. 89
2000 292 196 55 164 146 39 4 11 3 123
2001 332 216 69 182 156 20 19 20 5 140
2002 382 248 98 245 214 16 31 20 13 156
2003 317 175 87 186 153 35 29 14 10 128
2004 356 225 80 140 113 5 38 17 10 116
2005 336 194 72 110 90 7 44 10 11 114
2006 421 260 97 94 78 10 33 13 11 131
2007 455 289 114 109 79 4 47 11 11 157
2008 574 324 169 149 115 7 36 5 11 167
2009 545 322 173 154 116 9 32 2 6 165
2010 485 254 174 122 93 3 33 0 3 127
2011 584 206 275 185 123 8 36 8 24 129
annual averages:
2003-2007 377 229 90 128 103 12 38 13 11 129
2007-2011 529 279 181 144 105 6 37 5 11 149

Footnotes
1) More than one drug may be reported per death. These are mentions of each drug, and should not be added to give total deaths. Up to 2007, some pathologists reported only those drugs which they thought caused, or contributed to, the death. From 2008, they report separately:
(a) drugs which were implicated in, or which potentially contributed to the cause of death; and
(b) other drugs which were present but which were not considered to have had any direct contribution to the death.

The figures for 2008 onwards are on the first basis - i.e. basis (a) - which is now the standard basis for figures for individual drugs. The figures for 2008 have been revised from those published in Drug-related Deaths in Scotland in 2008'.

There may be other differences between years and/or areas in the way in which the information was produced - more information can be found in Section 2.

2) More information can be found in paragraph 3.3.1 of the commentary.

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