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For Justina Murray, chief executive of the charity Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs, the problems do not lie with strategy or funding but with culture and delivery, especially in ...
The drug crisis in Scotland (also known as the drug deaths crisis or drug epidemic) is an ongoing crisis regarding mortality rates over drug related/misuse deaths in the country. Drug related deaths started to rise during the 1980s. From 2015 onwards the mortality rate of drug misuse deaths in Scotland has increased rapidly, prompting calls of ...
Scotland’s minister for drug policy outlined some measures aimed at tackling the drug death crisis.
Drug misuse crude death in 2019 regionally and overall. In 2023, 3,618 deaths in England and Wales [1] and 1,172 in Scotland were recorded as “drug misuse”. [2] Deaths from drugs overtook traffic fatalities in the United Kingdom as a leading cause of death in 2008, and have risen every year since 2012.
On 2 July 2018, six-year-old Scottish girl Alesha Sarah MacPhail was abducted from her bed and murdered by 16-year-old Aaron Thomas Campbell. Alesha, from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, was three days into a stay with her grandparents on the Isle of Bute when Campbell entered their unlocked home at approximately 2am.
The ice cream wars were turf wars in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s between rival criminal organisations selling drugs [1] [2] and stolen goods [1] from ice cream vans. Van operators were involved in frequent violence and intimidation tactics, the most notable example of which involved a driver and his family who were killed in ...
The United Kingdom saw a record rise in the number of deaths caused by alcohol misuse last year, which public health officials said was linked to the wider social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alcohol-related deaths in Scotland (7 P) S. ... Pages in category "Drug-related deaths in Scotland" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.