The annual publication of drug deaths in Scotland with another one thousand and fifty-one people added to the thousands before them who have died.
Again, it made for grim reading with another one thousand and fifty-one people added to the thousands before them who have died as a result of the addiction crisis the country has faced for decades.
The mortality rate among people who use drugs to the extent they are considered at risk is far higher than in the general population. If indeed the tide is turning, and hopefully it is and fewer families are spared the heartbreak of losing someone to drugs, then it raises other questions and highlights past failings.
It could be that there comes a point where the older people in the cohort who have been living with addiction for so long, die, and this point is now being reached. We need a greater understanding of what is going on with people who use drugs and those who are ‘at risk’. This ignored the fact that new people, younger people were coming up after them, replacing them and becoming the at risk population of the future.Among people aged 45-59 deaths increased year on year and peaked in 2000 at 253 before falling.
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