Drug deaths continue to blight the most deprived areas of Scotland as the latest annual statistics show.
At the other end of the spectrum, East Renfrewshire and Aberdeenshire had the lowest level of deaths.
The National Records of Scotland which produces the report said: “The association of deprivation with drug misuse deaths is much greater than with other causes of death.” It added: “This is a much larger deprivation ratio than for deaths from all causes where people in the most deprived areas are around twice as likely to die as those in the least deprived areas.”The NRS added: “Over time, the ratio of drug misuse deaths in the most and least deprived quintiles has changed. The lowest ratio was 8.4 in 2011 and the highest was 19.6 in 2019.”
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