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Drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2009

Table HB3 Drug-related deaths by selected drugs reported1 and NHS Board area, 2009

NHS Board
area

Heroin /
morphine 2

Meth-
adone

Benzodiazepines

Cocaine

Ecstasy

Amphet-
amines

Alcohol

Any
benzo-
diazepine

of which:

Diaz-epam

Temaz-
epam

Scotland

322

173

154

116

9

32

2

6

165

Ayrshire & Arran

29

13

8

7

0

1

1

1

8

Borders

2

0

3

2

0

0

0

0

2

Dumfries & Galloway

5

2

2

2

0

1

0

0

3

Fife

17

8

12

12

0

0

0

2

6

Forth Valley

10

2

5

5

0

0

0

0

4

Grampian

33

9

28

1

0

11

0

1

16

Greater Glasgow & Clyde

111

74

12

11

1

14

0

1

65

Highland

12

7

4

2

0

0

0

0

6

Lanarkshire

35

9

4

4

0

0

0

1

18

Lothian

36

35

47

45

6

4

1

0

23

Orkney

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Shetland

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Tayside

31

14

28

25

2

1

0

0

13

Western Isles

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

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 GROS's figures for individual drugs. They are on a different basis from those published in Table HB3 of the previous edition.
There may be other differences between years and/or areas in the way in which the information was produced - see Section 2.

2. See paragraph 3.3.1 of commentary.

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