Occasional Paper

No.1

Published on 21 August 2000

Drug-related Deaths in Scotland in 1999

G W L Jackson, BSc, MA
Statistician, National Records of Scotland

Dr S K Cole MD, FRCOG, FFCM, FRCP(Ed.)
Consultant Medical Adviser to the Registrar General for Scotland

This paper describes the system by which the Registrar General for Scotland collects information on drug related deaths and the measures which have been taken to improve the quality and coverage of this system.

• Introduction
• Summary of Results
• List of Tables

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