Caution urged as Scotland’s drug deaths “fall by 22%” in 6 months

Police Scotland data showed 562 suspected drug deaths January-June 2022. “This snapshot has to be treated with caution: this report itself says so, and the same police figures for 2021 showed significant reductions in 3 of the 4 quarters, while the yearly figures from National Records for Scotland found only 0.67% fewer deaths,” Favor noted.