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Article: Drugs claim a record number of Scots lives; Death toll hits 574 in a year and doubles in a decade.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2009
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Byline: Andrew Picken Scottish Political Reporter
SCOTLAND'S worsening drugs epidemic killed a record number of users last year.
A total of 574 Scots drug users died in 2008, a rise of more than a quarter on the previous year's death toll.
Heroin or morphine were to blame in almost two-thirds of cases which come despite successive SNP and Labour-run administrations pouring millions of pounds into anti-drug campaigns.
Figures show the number of drug users dying north of the Border has more than doubled in a decade. Deaths from so-called 'middle-class' drugs glamorised by celebrities are also on the rise.
Cocaine was a factor ...