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National Statistics: Drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2011

Table C3: Drug-related deaths by selected drugs reported1 and Council area, 2011

Council area All drug-related deaths Heroin / morphine2 Meth-adone Benzodiazepines Cocaine Ecstasy Amphet-amines Alcohol
Any benzo-diazepine of which:
Diaz-epam Temaz-epam
Scotland 584 206 275 185 123 8 36 8 24 129
Aberdeen City 29 7 16 27 2 0 5 0 1 10
Aberdeenshire 19 3 13 12 3 0 4 0 3 7
Angus 8 4 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 3
Argyll & Bute 12 4 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 7
Clackmannanshire 6 0 5 2 2 0 0 0 2 0
Dumfries & Galloway 12 4 7 7 5 1 0 0 0 1
Dundee City 32 17 17 13 13 0 0 0 0 5
East Ayrshire 17 8 7 6 5 0 0 1 1 0
East Dunbartonshire 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1
East Lothian 8 0 5 3 2 1 0 0 0 2
East Renfrewshire 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Edinburgh, City of 48 10 29 17 16 0 3 2 1 3
Eilean Siar 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Falkirk 11 7 3 3 3 1 1 0 0 4
Fife 34 14 15 8 8 0 0 0 2 6
Glasgow City 117 50 55 19 14 0 10 0 0 33
Highland 21 7 8 9 6 2 0 3 5 5
Inverclyde 20 8 11 6 4 0 0 0 1 2
Midlothian 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Moray 10 3 0 9 4 1 2 0 0 3
North Ayrshire 16 4 12 8 8 0 0 0 0 2
North Lanarkshire 27 9 9 4 3 0 0 0 1 10
Orkney Islands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Perth & Kinross 5 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Renfrewshire 24 12 11 4 4 0 4 0 0 5
Scottish Borders 8 2 4 3 3 0 2 0 0 3
Shetland Islands 3 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0
South Ayrshire 14 4 7 3 2 0 1 1 2 2
South Lanarkshire 34 10 16 9 5 2 1 1 2 7
Stirling 9 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 0
West Dunbartonshire 17 8 5 2 2 0 1 0 1 3
West Lothian 13 3 6 4 4 0 0 0 0 3

 

Footnotes
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 the figures for  individual drugs. They are on a different basis from those published in Table C3 of 'Drug-related Deaths in Scotland in 2008' and earlier editions.

There may be other differences between years and/or areas in the way in which the information was produced - more information can be found in Section 2.

2) More information can be found in paragraph 3.3.1.

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