Drug deaths increase in Scotland
There has been a huge increase in the number of drink and drug-related deaths in Scotland.
There were 584 recorded deaths last year, an increase of 20% on the year before and 76% higher than a decade ago.
Heroin substitute methadone, which is prescribed to addicts by GPs, was implicated in nearly half the deaths.
BBC Scotland's social affairs correspondent Reevel Alderson reports.
17 Aug 2012
- From the section Scotland