There were 1,330 deaths in Scotland last year, which was down slightly from 1,339 the previous year.
The number of people who died of drug misuse in Scotland last year dropped slightly to 1,330 - the first time the figure has been down in eight years.showed there were nine fewer deaths than the 1,339 recorded the previous year.
However, Scotland continues to have by far the highest drug death rate recorded by any country in Europe.The latest figure of 1,330 is still the second highest annual total on record and Scotland's drug misuse rate remains around 3.7 times that for the UK as a whole.Of those who died from misuse of drugs in Scotland, 65% were aged between 35 and 54 and more than two thirds were men.
Dundee city had the highest death rate of all local authority areas , followed by Glasgow city and Inverclyde .Opiates or opioids - such as heroin, morphine and methadone - were implicated in 84% of the deaths.the head of Scotland's drug deaths taskforce called for an overhaul of addiction servicesDavid Mr Strang - a former chief inspector of prisons and ex-chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police - echoed earlier calls for a "public health approach" to the crisis.
Julie Ramsay, vital events statistician at NRS, said: "Drug misuse deaths have increased substantially over the past few decades - there were more than five times as many deaths in 2021 compared with 1996. "In 2021, after adjusting for age, people in the most deprived areas were more than 15 times as likely to have a drug misuse death as those in the least deprived areas. This ratio has widened over the past two decades."Last month, a Public Health Scotland report revealed
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