Current status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 20 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug deaths there have been since 1997, broken down by local authority area.
The figures in thefollowing table on the numbers of drug-related deaths in Scotland since 1997 were compiled by the General Register Officefor Scotland (GROS).
Information on theproportion that led to a custodial sentence is not available as court proceedingsstatistics held centrally do not uniformly contain detailed information on circumstancesof the original offence.
Drug-Related Deaths1in Scotland, Numbers, Local Authority Area, 1997-2006
| Council Area | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| Scotland | 224 | 249 | 291 | 292 | 332 | 382 | 317 | 356 | 336 | 421 |
| Aberdeen City | 13 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 32 | 34 | 21 | 27 | 11 | 26 |
| Aberdeenshire | 7 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 16 |
| Angus | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 11 |
| Argyll and Bute | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Clackmannanshire | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 7 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| Dundee City | 22 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 16 |
| East Ayrshire | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| East Lothian | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| East Renfrewshire | - | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 33 | 29 | 25 | 28 | 39 | 27 | 26 | 17 | 41 | 30 |
| Eilean Siar | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Falkirk | 2 | - | 5 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 |
| Fife | 8 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 19 |
| Glasgow City | 59 | 83 | 91 | 96 | 84 | 111 | 93 | 106 | 75 | 113 |
| Highland | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 11 |
| Inverclyde | 5 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 9 |
| Midlothian | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Moray | 2 | - | 5 | 3 | - | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| North Ayrshire | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 11 |
| North Lanarkshire | 7 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 12 | 28 | 22 | 20 | 25 | 24 |
| Orkney Islands | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Perth and Kinross | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 8 |
| Renfrewshire | 6 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 17 |
| Scottish Borders | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| Shetland Islands | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| South Ayrshire | 3 | - | 4 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| South Lanarkshire | 7 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 17 | 16 | 22 |
| Stirling | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 12 |
| West Lothian | 7 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 7 |
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