Volatile Substance Abuse and Helium Deaths
Volatile Substance Abuse and Helium Deaths
Last update: 17 August 2021
Next update: August 2022
Frequency: Annual
Information on the numbers of deaths which were caused by Volatile Substance Abuse and by Helium, 2020 and previous years.
Contents
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Main Points (PDF 85 KB) |
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Methodology (PDF 279 KB) |
Tables
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Table VSA: Volatile Substance Abuse deaths by sex, by age-group, by whether an abusable Volatile Substance was implicated in the death, and by whether the death was counted as drug-related (in terms of two definitions), registered in Scotland, 2000 to 2020 |
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Table H: Helium deaths by sex, by age-group, by whether Helium was implicated in the death, and by whether the death was counted as ‘drug-related’ (in terms of two definitions), registered in Scotland, 2000 to 2020 |
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Statistical Service in Scotland
Statistics for other parts of the United Kingdom (UK)
Information for the rest of the UK can be found via the following website links:
- England & Wales: Office for National Statistics, Deaths related to volatile substances and helium in Great Britain
- Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics of Death
Note: Figures for England & Wales and/or Northern Ireland may not always be on exactly the same basis as National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures: there can be differences in the coverage of what at first sight appear to be the same statistics.
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