Drug Related Deaths in Scotland
Drug Related Deaths in Scotland
Statistics of drug-related deaths, broken down by age, sex, substances implicated in the death, underlying cause of death, and NHS Board and Council areas
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| Archive | Historical Data back to the publication for 1997 |
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Drug death rates of other countries
A comparison with the drug-death rates of other countries for 2016, 2017 and 2018 (based on the data which were available in August 2019)
Drug-death rates - comparisons with other countries - 2016 2017 and 2018 - data available in August 2019 (PDF 301 KB)
Drug related death figures for pre-1996
Information about the limited availability of figures for 1995 and earlier years.
Figures for drug-related deaths for Scotland for 1995 and earlier years (PDF 216 KB)
Drug death statistics across the UK
Further information for the rest of the UK can be found via the following links:
England & Wales (Office for National Statistics website)
Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency website)
Related reading
What actually counts as a drug death – NRS
Comparability of drug-related deaths across the UK - ONS
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Lead Statistician: Daniel Burns
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