Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Drug deaths down again but Scotland still worst in Europe

Scotland’s drug-related death toll remains “unacceptably high” experts have warned, despite having fallen two years in a row.
There were 485 fatalities in 2010 as a result of drug use, official figures showed yesterday, down from 545 in 2009 and 574 the year before.
The rate in Scotland, though, is about seven times the European average.
David Liddell, director of Sc
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ottish Drugs Forum (SDF), said the fall in deaths last year was “encouraging.” But he added: “Scotland’s death toll from drug problems remains unacceptably high.
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