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Volatile Substance Abuse and Helium Deaths
Volatile Substance Abuse and Helium Deaths
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Information on the numbers of deaths which were caused by Volatile Substance Abuse and by Helium, 2018 and previous years. |
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ISBN |
Web Only |
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Official Print Publication |
Web Only |
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Last updated: 16 July 2019 |
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Contents
Main points (PDF 129 KB)
Methodology (PDF 279 KB)
Tables
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Table VSA |
Volatile Substance Abuse deaths by sex, by age-group, by whether an abusable Volatile Substance was implicated in the death, and by whether the death was counted as drug-related (in terms of two definitions), registered in Scotland, 2000 to 2018 |
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Table H |
Helium deaths by sex, by age-group, by whether Helium was implicated in the death, and by whether the death was counted as ‘drug-related’ (in terms of two definitions), registered in Scotland, 2000 to 2018 |
Statistics for other parts of the United Kingdom (UK)
Information for the rest of the UK can be found via the following website links:
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England & Wales |
(Office for National Statistics) Deaths related to volatile substances and helium in Great Britain |
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Nothern Ireland |
(Nothern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) Statistics of Death |
| Note: | Figures for England & Wales and/or Northern Ireland may not always be on exactly the same basis as National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures: there can be differences in the coverage of what at first sight appear to be the same statistics. |
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Alan Ferrier, Senior Statistician,
National Records of Scotland,
Room 1/2/3, Ladywell House, Ladywell Road, Edinburgh. EH12 7TF.
Telephone: (0131) 314 4530
E-mail: Alan.Ferrier@nrscotland.gov.uk