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Falkirk councillor calls for national centre for addiction rehabilitation as drug deaths hit new record high
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dailyrecord.co.ukFalkirk councillor and anti-drugs campaigner has called for the creation of a national centre for addiction rehabilitation, as drug deaths in the area and across Scotland hit a new high.
Drugs deaths in the Forth Valley health board rose to 77 last year – an increase of two on the 2019 figures, which were the highest in over a decade.And nationally more than 1,300 people died of drug misuse – the seventh year in a row that Scotland has seen a record number of deaths.The figures from the National Records of Scotland showed almost three-quarters of the local deaths involved ‘street valium’, which also accounted for 60 per cent of deaths nationally.Some of these are prescription drugs such as diazepam and valium but most are Benzodiazepines.
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