Glasgow eye of storm as drug deaths spiral in Scotland

They have survived the kind of lethal addictions to substances that have left Scotland with the highest drug-related death rate in the European Union, according to official Scottish statistics.And both are now in a rehabilitation programme at a residential clinic paid for by local authorities that they hope will turn around, and even save, their lives.

After years of British government-led austerity cuts to services as well as cheap new cocktails of drugs increasingly prevalent, Munro thinks the situation may get worse still.'TRAINSPOTTING GENERATION' The nation's historical problems with heroin addiction became infamous worldwide following Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle's 1996 hit film"Trainspotting".

"Their health issues are so severe that if they currently keep using, a large minority of them are going to end up dying through a drug-related death."The annual drug death statistics released in July by the Scottish records office show that multiple substance abuse is to blame in the vast majority of victims' cases.

Last year, there were an unprecedented 1,187 drug-related deaths in Scotland, according to the National Records of Scotland office

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