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Drop in number of drug deaths in West Lothian despite record amount of fatalities throughout Scotland

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Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.The number of drug deaths dropped in West Lothian this year despite Scotland hitting a record high.The latest data released by the National Records of Scotland shows that across Scotland our annual death rate is now 3.5 times that of the UK as a whole.In West Lothian, the number of annual drug-related deaths dropped by two, from 25 to 23.The figures show that the number of drug-related deaths in Edinburgh and the Lothian’s have risen from a previous record high last year of 152 to a new record high of 155.Across Scotland, the figures have risen from 1187 in 2018 to 1264 in 2019.In the last 10 years, the number of drug-related deaths has more.

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