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Why are drug-related deaths among women increasing in Scotland? - full report

A scoping project examining potential explanations for the disproportionate rise in drug-related deaths among women.

The assistance of the following is gratefully acknowledged:

All the staff from front-line services, academia, and the third sector who took part in our stakeholder conversations (See Appendix 2 for a summary of informant roles)
All the women who took part in the qualitative element of the Older People with Drug Problems project, and to the peer researchers who undertook the interviews
Scottish Government Library Services, for undertaking the literature search
Frank Dixon (National Records for Scotland), Lee Barnsdale, Xanthippi Gounari and Jaroslaw Lang (ISD Scotland), and Andy McAuley (Health Protection Scotland/Glasgow Caledonian University) for providing data to inform the synthesis, and for their advice on analysis and interpretation
Mark Lawson, Fran Warren, Fiona Fraser, Maggie Page and Carol Brown (Scottish Government), and Elinor Dickie ( NHS Health Scotland) for guidance throughout the project

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