2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |
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Footnotes:
** apart, perhaps, from alcohol. | |||||||||||
All drug-related deaths (on the 'wide' definition) | 493 | 546 | 480 | 577 | 630 | 737 | 716 | 692 | 749 | 734 | 685 |
Deaths which involved 'New Psychoactive Substances'1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 47 | 47 | 113 |
of which: | |||||||||||
(a) deaths for which one (or more) New Psychoactive Substances was implicated in, or potentially contributed, to the death | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 28 | 32 | 60 |
(i) included in this report's statistics (i.e. in the Drug Strategy 'baseline' definition, as implemented by NRS) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 26 | 30 | 57 |
of which: | |||||||||||
NPS the only substance(s)* implicated in the death2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Other substance(s)** also implicated in the death3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 27 | 54 |
(ii) not included in this report's statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
of which: | |||||||||||
NPS the only substance(s)* implicated in the death4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Other substance(s)** also implicated in the death5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
(b) deaths for which one (or more) New Psychoactive Substances was present but not considered to have contributed to the death | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 53 |
of which: | |||||||||||
(i) included in this report's statistics6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 52 |
(ii) not included in this report's statistics7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Total: all deaths which involved New Psychoactive Substances | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 47 | 47 | 113 |
of which: | |||||||||||
(i) included in this report's statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 45 | 45 | 109 |
(ii) not included in this report's statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |