Easy availability of a wide range of cheap drugs could be the reason why Glasgow has higher drug death rates than other large cities, according to a health expert.
Easy availability of a wide range of cheap drugs could be the reason why Glasgow has higher drug deaths rates than other large cities, according to aDrugs are far cheaper and more choice exists now in Glasgow than in the 1980s, with the average spend of a problem drug user estimated at around £30,000 a year.
The latest drug death statistics for 2021 are due today but in 2020 the city had 291 deaths, the year before was the latest in a series of record deaths, rising year on year for the previous seven years. Temazepam, which caused huge harms in the 1980s, cost around £1.50 a capsule. Now etizolam and street benzodiazepines cost around 12p each. People are buying them in quantities of 50 or 100 at a time.Mr Campbell said: “With inflation, heroin should cost £140 for 200g, three benzodiazepines should be £31.
The initiative is a healthcare intervention. It provides wound care and assessment of injecting risk. Everyone who attends leaves with a naloxone kit and offers of dry blood spot testing.
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