Table HB3 Drug-related deaths by selected drugs reported1 and NHS Board area, 2009
| NHS Board |
Heroin / |
Meth- |
Benzodiazepines |
Cocaine |
Ecstasy |
Amphet- |
Alcohol |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any |
of which: |
||||||||
| Diaz-epam |
Temaz- |
||||||||
| Scotland |
322 |
173 |
154 |
116 |
9 |
32 |
2 |
6 |
165 |
| Ayrshire & Arran |
29 |
13 |
8 |
7 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
| Borders |
2 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| Dumfries & Galloway |
5 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| Fife |
17 |
8 |
12 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
6 |
| Forth Valley |
10 |
2 |
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
| Grampian |
33 |
9 |
28 |
1 |
0 |
11 |
0 |
1 |
16 |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde |
111 |
74 |
12 |
11 |
1 |
14 |
0 |
1 |
65 |
| Highland |
12 |
7 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
| Lanarkshire |
35 |
9 |
4 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
18 |
| Lothian |
36 |
35 |
47 |
45 |
6 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
23 |
| Orkney |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Shetland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Tayside |
31 |
14 |
28 |
25 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
| Western Isles |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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 GROS's figures for
individual drugs. They are on a different basis from those
published in Table HB3 of the previous edition.
There may be other differences between years and/or areas in
the way in which the information was produced - see Section
2.
2. See paragraph 3.3.1 of commentary.