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National Statistics: Drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2011

Table HB3: Drug-related deaths by selected drugs reported1 and NHS Board area, 2011

NHS Board area All drug-related deaths Heroin / morphine2 Methadone Benzodiazepines Cocaine Ecstasy Amphet-amines Alcohol
Any benzo-diazepine of which:
Diazepam Temazepam
Scotland 584 206 275 185 123 8 36 8 24 129
Ayrshire & Arran 47 16 26 17 15 0 1 2 3 4
Borders 8 2 4 3 3 0 2 0 0 3
Dumfries & Galloway 12 4 7 7 5 1 0 0 0 1
Fife 34 14 15 8 8 0 0 0 2 6
Forth Valley 26 10 10 6 6 1 1 0 4 4
Grampian 58 13 29 48 9 1 11 0 4 20
Greater Glasgow & Clyde 192 81 88 36 27 2 16 1 3 48
Highland 33 11 13 10 7 2 0 3 5 12
Lanarkshire 52 18 20 9 6 0 0 0 2 14
Lothian 73 14 42 24 22 1 3 2 1 9
Orkney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shetland 3 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0
Tayside 45 23 20 15 15 0 1 0 0 8
Western Isles 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

 

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. With effect from 2008, pathologists 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 in this table are on the first basis - i.e. basis (a) - which is now the standard basis for figures for individual drugs. They are on a different basis from those published in Table HB3 of 'Drug-related Deaths in Scotland in 2008' and earlier editions.

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 found in paragraph 3.3.1.

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