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Scotland's drug deaths increase as country worst in world for overdoses
drug deaths increased yet again in 2020.Official figures show the numbers to die amounted to 1339 - a massive increase of five per cent on the previous year’s figures, which were already the worst in the world.The latest toll of tragedy once more puts the world’s gaze on Scotland for the wrong reasons.Annemarie Ward, of the FAVOR charity, said: “These new figures show that we need to get people into treatment.