Recent figures showed that the number of deaths from drug poisoning reached record levels in England and Wales last year.2 Scotland's drug death rate in 2016 of 160 deaths 鈥doi:10.1136/bmj.j3941Iacobucci GarethBMJBmj
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Leading causes of death for drug-treatment clients across Scotland, 1996–2006, were drug-related (1383 DRDs) and non-drug-related suicides (269). We investigate DRD-risk by time since most recent hospital stay. Drug-treatment records were linked to national registers of deaths, hepatitis C vi...
Scotland drug deaths down but rate higher than rest of Europe 'I lost my leg to £15 heroin hit' - on the frontline of drug epidemic The lord advocate's statement comes after figures from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed there were a total of 1,051 deaths due to d...
Of the 2,364 total births, 11 were stillbirths (deaths in utero ≥ 24 weeks gestation) and eight live births resulted in neonatal deaths (death within 28 d of birth), giving an extended perinatal mortality rate of 8.0 per 1,000 births following SARS-CoV-2 infection at any point ...
65% of Scottish ambulances now carry the life saving drug Naloxone, and some Police Scotland officers now carry it to it helps reverse the effects of a drugs overdose. Angela Constance, Scotland’s minister for drugs policy, appears chuffed to bits with the new stance on fighting drugs overdos...
to name the drug when a simple Google search can lead vulnerable people to find details of how to obtain it. It was also disappointing to read the phrase, ‘death row drug’, as this serves to sensationalise the death and draw attention to a method that is relatively unknown in t...
SIMD score = quintile distribution; 12 relevant SIMD indicators = Income Deprivation Rate; Employment Deprivation Rate; Comparative Illness Factor; Hospital stays related to alcohol use; Hospital stays related to drug use; Standardised Mortality Ratio; Proportion of population prescribed drugs ...
Oh God! I forgot about that drug induced torture room. Next in line will be battering the doors down to John Lewis. Just goes to show money can’t buy taste – or hire it either. LBC Brexshiteers are melting the phones “BoJo is a Saint. He got brexit done’ Umm. I think it’...
Drugs, especially heroin, and drug-related crime are a problem in larger cities. Police report an increasing frequency of fraud, auto theft, and violent crimes involving guns. Drunk driving has been reduced, and the use of a designated driver has become a common practice. There has been an ...