Table 6: Drug-related deaths by sex, age and selected drugs reported1, Scotland, 2013
All drug-related deaths
Heroin/morphine2
Methadone
Benzodiazepines
Cocaine
Ecstasy
Amphetamines
Alcohol
Any benzodiazepine
of which:
Diazepam
Temazepam
Footnotes:
More than one drug may be reported per death. These are mentions of each drug, and should not be added to give total deaths.
Part (i) counts only drugs which, the pathologist believed, were implicated in, or potentially contributed to, the cause of death.
Part (ii) counts all the drugs which the pathologist found to be present in the body, including those which the pathologist did not consider to have had any direct contribution to the death.
More information can be found in paragraph 3.3.1 of the commentary.
(i) drugs which were implicated in, or which potentially contributed to, the cause of death
All deaths
526
221
216
149
107
4
45
17
27
103
Males
393
174
150
110
83
3
41
14
22
84
Females
133
47
66
39
24
1
4
3
5
19
Under 25
32
6
5
7
5
0
10
10
12
4
25-34
137
65
63
45
33
1
12
1
5
33
35-44
184
92
76
47
33
0
13
3
4
33
45-54
125
45
64
37
27
1
9
3
5
27
55 and over
48
13
8
13
9
2
1
0
1
6
Males
Under 25
28
4
5
6
5
0
10
9
11
3
25-34
107
53
42
36
28
1
11
1
3
28
35-44
141
78
55
37
28
0
11
1
3
30
45-54
87
29
43
24
17
1
8
3
4
20
55 and over
30
10
5
7
5
1
1
0
1
3
Females
Under 25
4
2
0
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
25-34
30
12
21
9
5
0
1
0
2
5
35-44
43
14
21
10
5
0
2
2
1
3
45-54
38
16
21
13
10
0
1
0
1
7
55 and over
18
3
3
6
4
1
0
0
0
3
(ii) all drugs which were found to be present in the body