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Nicola Sturgeon was accused of presiding over national shame today as Scotland s drugs deaths hit a new record of 1,339.
The grim toll went up 5 per cent last year, the seventh annual rise in a row, as the country continued to have the worst fatality rate in Europe.
With 21.2 deaths per 1,000 people, the level is more than three-and-a-half times higher than the rest of the UK.
Some 291 lost their lives in Glasgow alone - the worst hit area. Of the overall figure, 1,192 deaths were related in some way to opioids.
Amid outrage at the scale of the tragedy, Ms Sturgeon said it was unacceptable and each was a human tragedy .
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