• Scots drug and drink-linked deaths at record level!
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[QUOTE]Drug and drink-related deaths in Scotland have reached record levels, with cases relating to methadone making up almost half the figure. There were 584 recorded deaths in 2011 - up 99 on the previous year and a 76% increase on 2001. Heroin substitute methadone was linked to 47% of deaths, with heroin and morphine accounting for a third. Justice Minister Roseanna Cunningham said the government was committed to helping serious addicts recover. But opposition parties said the proportion of deaths related to methadone, which is prescribed to help heroin users kick their habit, showed ministers had to rethink their policy. According to the figures: Heroin and/or morphine was linked to 206 deaths (35%) Methadone was linked to 275 deaths (47%) Benzodiazepines, like diazepam, were linked to 185 deaths (32%) Alcohol was linked to 129 deaths (22%) Cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines were liked to 36, eight and 24 deaths respectively There have been increases in deaths in six of the past 10 years. A total of 36% of deaths were among 35 to 44-year-olds, with people aged 24 to 34 involved in 32% of cases. Men accounted for 73%, but the increase in the number of drug-related deaths was greater for women - at 117%. Ms Cunningham, Scotland's minister for community safety, said £28.6m was being invested in drug treatment over 2012-13, while naloxone kits, which help counteract the effects of opiate drug overdoses, were being handed out across Scotland. She said: "Every one of these deaths is a tragedy and I extend my sympathies to the family members, friends and everyone connected. "Today's publication once again underlines Scotland has a legacy of drug misuse that stretches back decades, creating this upward 10-year trend in drug-related deaths. Many of those lost to us are older drug users who after years have become increasingly unwell. "No government has done more to address the legacy and while it will take time to tackle this tragedy, we will do that through continuing to invest and support the recovery of those affected by drugs in Scotland." Biba Brand, of the Scottish Drugs Forum, said families seeking help for drug problems were now in their third generation. "Drug-dependency is a chronic, relapsing condition for which there is no single solution and no quick or easy answer," she said. Labour justice spokesman Lewis Macdonald said: "With a large proportion of deaths involving methadone, it would appear that the approach being taken to treatment isn't working properly and fails to prevent addicts combining drugs into lethal cocktails. "It isn't good enough for the SNP to say they are spending more money on the same approach." Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson MSP added: "This appalling loss of life illustrates the human disaster that is the methadone programme. "It would appear hundreds of families are being blighted by what is little more than legalised drug-taking on an industrial scale." The Lib Dems' Alison McInnes MSP said: "It is disappointing the community minister made no mention of prevention. "The starting gun to tackling drug abuse in our communities must be education." Elsewhere, the figures showed a total of 33% of deaths happened in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board area, with the proportion at 13% in Lothian. The overall figure accounted for 1% of all recorded deaths.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-19294709[/url] Great to see my country sink even lower.
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it's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We're ruled by effete assholes.
Trainspotting <3 ^
Scottish people have the worst diet in the world. A study found this out. Which means that even ethiopia has them beat. And they dont have any food at all! It is better to be starving, that scottish.
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;37301491]Scottish people have the worst diet in the world. A study found this out. Which means that even ethiopia has them beat. And they dont have any food at all! It is better to be starving, that scottish.[/QUOTE] Nothing wrong with a nice deep fried mars bar.
Why did I instantly think of this? [video=youtube;4A9nImoqjeM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A9nImoqjeM[/video]
Oh flower of Scotland!
[QUOTE=dunkace;37299795]Trainspotting <3 ^[/QUOTE] personally i find this scene more deep and meaningful [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJrWlHRT-18[/media]
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37299751]it's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We're ruled by effete assholes.[/QUOTE] Or you could choose to look at it the way I do: we're the descendants of Vikings and Romans... granted we're only really the latter by extension - we kicked the Romans the fuck out (something that only Scotland and Germany managed to achieve from memory), but the Romans raped the fuck out of the English (figuratively and literally), and the English eventually raped us (also figuratively and literally). We're the descendants of warriors. ... and we pretty much invented like almost everything in the modern fucking world (somehow... no clue how we managed to do that between all of the drunken fighting). [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries[/url]
Dear diary. Today Scotland was still trying to be as cool as Brittany. And it turned out horribly. And it didn't work either.
why is this being rated winner omg people are drinking and dying etc
[QUOTE=sltungle;37307654]Or you could choose to look at it the way I do: we're the descendants of Vikings and Romans...[/QUOTE] Wrong, the Scots are mostly descended from the Pict tribes, Irish tribes, etc. There were a lot more Anglo-Saxons than you think too. [QUOTE=sltungle;37307654]granted we're only really the latter by extension - we kicked the Romans the fuck out (something that only Scotland and Germany managed to achieve from memory)[/QUOTE] Wrong, the reason the Romans didn't conquer Scotland is because there was little of value here. Part of the original reason they took over England was to get the mines in Wales/Cornwall and to stop the British tribes supporting any Gaul rebels. [QUOTE=sltungle;37307654]but the Romans raped the fuck out of the English (figuratively and literally), and the English eventually raped us (also figuratively and literally). We're the descendants of warriors.[/QUOTE] Scottish warfare hasn't been something that exactly impressive. Scottish cavalry was utterly shit, along with their ranged capabilities. Most of the traditional highlander warfare is useless when it came head to head with a professional army. England always tended to win wars with Scotland, but it was very unprofitable to actually hold onto, and much of the time they left the hellhole up north to have all their infighting. [QUOTE=sltungle;37307654]... and we pretty much invented like almost everything in the modern fucking world (somehow... no clue how we managed to do that between all of the drunken fighting). [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries[/url][/QUOTE] A good deal of the inventions were invented by people who didn't actually live in Scotland at the time of invention. (Logie Baird for example) The list has been grossly inflated, and many of the inventors and innovators actually lived elsewhere at the time, their only tie to Scotland being that they lived in poverty there before moving elsewhere.
yeah well we still suck
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also -thread about hundred of Scotsmen dying because of drugs gets posted, recieves "winner"s -thread about 36 american soldiers shooting themselves gets posted, recieves "friendly"s, posters go buttmad over the one person rating "winner". Sensationalist headlines best subforum 10/10 would come again.
I don't know why they make a point of separating "drug" from "drink". Same thing. Maybe less people would abuse alcohol if it were actually treated as a serious drug.
[QUOTE=JaegerMonster;37308649]I don't know why they make a point of separating "drug" from "drink". Same thing. Maybe less people would abuse alcohol if it were actually treated as a serious drug.[/QUOTE] especially since alcohol doesn't stand out in the statistics, I mean that's 22% of deaths, I expected a way higher percentage with this being Scotland and all.
Wow its gotten even bigger of a problem, Scotland's industry buildings are pretty poor and decaying. Youth need more entertaining things to do as drinking and drugs usually spurs from boredom.
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