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Scottish
Update Issue 1- The Newsletter of the Christian Institute (Scotland)
- July 2001
Drug
use in Scotland: the facts
In
the last year 26% of males and 20% of females aged 16-19 and 37%
of males and 21% of females aged 20-24 have taken drugs.(1)
Drug-related crime in Lothian and Borders rose by 32% from 1996
to 2000.(2)
The value of drug seizures in Central Scotland rose from £40,000
to £542,000 in a year (3), and in Strathclyde
in 2000 the figure was £7 million.(4)
In Scotland there are now 30,000 drug addicts, 10,000 children whose
parents are on drugs and £540 million worth of drug-related
crimes annually. In 1999 340 people died from drug abuse. (5)
Drug-taking has wider implications. 12% of road accidents are cannabis
related.(6)
1 Scottish Social Statistics, 2001, page 83
2 Scottish Daily Mail, 17 April 2001
3 The Herald, 28 April 2001
4 Daily Record, 2 April 2001
5 Ibid
6 The Influence of Cannabis on Driving, TRL report
477, TRL/Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions,
2000, page 5
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