Drugs policy minister Elena Whitham welcomed the decrease in 2022 but said there were still too many people dying from drugs.
Data from National Records of Scotland showed there were a total of 1,051 deaths due to drug misuse in 2022 – a drop of 279 on the previous year.
The data also showed the rate of “drug poisoning deaths” in Scotland in 2021 – the most recent year for which comparisons are available – was 2.7 times higher than average for the UK. It found that “after adjusting for age, there were 3.7 times as many drug misuse deaths in 2022 as in 2000”.
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