Greater Glasgow and Clyde has had the highest rate since 2017.
Earlier intervention is needed to stop the 'tragic' number of lives lost to drug misuse across Glasgow increasing further, as the latest figures saw the city pass a grim milestone of more than 300 deaths last year.
Since 2017, Greater Glasgow and Clyde has had the largest death rate of all health board areas with 33.7 deaths per 100,000 population between 2017-2021. Glasgow City’s Alcohol and Drug Partnership, has been carrying out interventions through its WAND initiative which assesses wound care, assessment of injecting risk, naloxone provision and dry blood spot testing. WAND started on September 1, 2020 and within a year over 800 individuals had engaged, allowing the group to provide over 1200 WAND engagements, equating to nearly 5000 harm reduction interventions.
“While we continue to develop and implement the Scottish Government MAT Standards, we also have our WAND initiative which is providing a suite of harm reduction interventions to those most at risk and our peer-led outreach workers continue to link more and more people into our recovery communities across the city.
"There were 311 people who lost their lives in Glasgow, we should all reflect on that. While more than 1300 people in Scotland died. It is unacceptable and shameful in a modern city like Glasgow that we can’t do enough to stop people from taking drugs and stop that addiction.
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