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Drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2009

Table C3 Drug-related deaths by selected drugs reported1 and Council area, 2009

Council
area

Heroin /
morphine2

Meth-
adone

Benzodiazepines

Cocaine

Ecstasy

Amphet-
amines

Alcohol

Any
benzo-
diazepine

of which:

Diaz-
epam

Temaz-
epam

Scotland

322

173

154

116

9

32

2

6

165

Aberdeen City

20

3

13

1

0

6

0

1

7

Aberdeenshire

10

3

8

0

0

4

0

0

5

Angus

9

1

5

5

0

0

0

0

5

Argyll & Bute

3

3

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

Clackmannanshire

3

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

Dumfries & Galloway

5

2

2

2

0

1

0

0

3

Dundee City

19

12

18

16

1

1

0

0

7

East Ayrshire

12

3

3

3

0

0

0

0

2

East Dunbartonshire

0

4

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

East Lothian

2

3

3

3

1

0

0

0

1

East Renfrewshire

4

1

0

0

0

1

0

0

5

Edinburgh, City of

18

20

27

25

3

1

1

0

16

Eilean Siar

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

Falkirk

3

2

1

1

0

0

0

0

2

Fife

17

8

12

12

0

0

0

2

6

Glasgow City

72

48

9

8

1

7

0

1

44

Highland

9

4

4

2

0

0

0

0

5

Inverclyde

5

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

Midlothian

3

3

5

5

0

3

0

0

1

Moray

3

3

7

0

0

1

0

0

4

North Ayrshire

13

6

4

4

0

1

1

0

3

North Lanarkshire

27

8

3

3

0

0

0

1

15

Orkney Islands

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Perth & Kinross

3

1

5

4

1

0

0

0

1

Renfrewshire

19

7

2

2

0

3

0

0

9

Scottish Borders

2

0

3

2

0

0

0

0

2

Shetland Islands

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

South Ayrshire

4

4

1

0

0

0

0

1

3

South Lanarkshire

9

6

2

2

0

2

0

0

5

Stirling

4

0

3

3

0

0

0

0

2

West Dunbartonshire

10

7

0

0

0

1

0

0

3

West Lothian

13

9

12

12

2

0

0

0

5

 

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 C3 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.

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