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Drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2007

Table C3 Drug-related deaths by selected drugs involved and Council area, 2007

Council area

Heroin/ morphine 2

Methadone

Diazepam 3

Cocaine

Ecstasy

Temazepam 3

Alcohol

Scotland

289

114

79

47

11

4

157

Aberdeen City

16

4

2

4

1

0

12

Aberdeenshire

15

2

3

7

0

0

7

Angus

2

0

1

0

0

0

0

Argyll & Bute

6

3

0

1

1

0

4

Clackmannanshire

5

0

0

0

0

0

3

Dumfries & Galloway

6

2

2

0

0

0

5

Dundee City

12

2

3

1

0

0

6

East Ayrshire

9

4

3

2

0

0

5

East Dunbartonshire

6

1

0

2

0

0

2

East Lothian

0

2

1

0

0

0

0

East Renfrewshire

2

1

1

0

0

0

1

Edinburgh, City of

17

18

21

2

0

0

14

Eilean Siar

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Falkirk

8

2

3

0

0

0

6

Fife

19

2

7

0

2

0

5

Glasgow City

59

34

8

14

1

1

30

Highland

6

1

1

1

1

0

4

Inverclyde

8

0

0

1

0

1

2

Midlothian

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

Moray

3

2

0

0

0

1

3

North Ayrshire

8

6

4

1

2

1

4

North Lanarkshire

20

5

2

2

0

0

13

Orkney Islands

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Perth & Kinross

2

0

0

0

1

0

2

Renfrewshire

15

5

3

4

1

0

5

Scottish Borders

1

0

3

0

1

0

1

Shetland Islands

2

0

0

0

0

0

1

South Ayrshire

3

2

2

0

0

0

3

South Lanarkshire

19

9

2

3

0

0

7

Stirling

5

2

3

0

0

0

3

West Dunbartonshire

12

3

1

1

0

0

4

West Lothian

2

2

2

1

0

0

5

1. Individual deaths often involved more than one of these drugs. The numbers given are mentions of each drug, and should not be added to give total deaths.
2. See paragraph 3.3.1 of commentary.
3. Each year there are also a small number of mentions of unspecified benzodiazepines.

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