SCOTLAND has seen drug related deaths decrease in 2022, according to latest statistics published by National Records of Scotland.
SCOTLAND has seen drug-related deaths decrease in 2022, according to latest statistics published by National Records of Scotland .
Despite this fall, drug misuse deaths are still more common than they were two decades ago. After adjusting for age, there were 3.7 times as many drug misuse deaths in 2022 as in the year 2000. The rate of drug poisoning deaths in Scotland was 2.7 times as high as the UK average in 2021, the most recent year that data is available for the UK as a whole.After adjusting for age, there were 13.3 deaths per 100,000 females and 26.6 deaths per 100,000 males in 2022. This means that males were twice as likely to have a drug misuse death as females. This gap has narrowed in recent years.The average age of people who died from drug misuse deaths has increased from 32 in 2000 to 45 in 2022.
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