Alistair Bryan
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17 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2021
last heard Jan 2021
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No, that's not right.
Car crashes are explicitly excluded from this definition.
Other things which are not included include AIDS-related deaths, where the risk factor was believed to be needle-sharing, for example, or deaths from drowning under the influence of drugs, falls, other accidents, and even deaths due to assault by somebody who was under the influence of drugs.
These are all things which are not included in statistics.
There's a slightly different way in which Scottish statistics and UK statistics are collected.
So the Scottish statistics
might be slightly more up to date.
They might be comparing the whole of a year with the midpoint of a year and the midpoint of the next year, for example.
And there's one example which is used that if a person in Scotland overdoses on a legal substance but has legal drugs in their system, that would be counted in our statistics, but wouldn't be counted in English statistics.
The report there says that that accounts for about three deaths on average per year.
So it wouldn't really affect any comparison between the UK and Scotland.
So if you look at Scotland's drug deaths per million population, using 2018 statistics, which are the comparable statistics with the majority of European countries, Scotland's sitting on 295 drug deaths per million population,
The nearest highest is Sweden, which sits at 81.
The UK is sitting at 76 drug deaths per million.
And the European Union's is 24.
So Scotland's is far higher than any of the other European countries which have sort of comparable data.
There are definite advantages for some supporters of Scottish independence to try and make claims that when a situation occurs where the Scottish record might be unfavourably compared to the UK, then claims like this might be used in order to offer some level of defence for the Scottish government.
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