Scotland's drugs crisis: Hundreds die every year from deadly 30p pills | ITV News

More than 1,000 people have died from drugs in one year in Scotland for the first time – and the crisis is seemingly fuelled by a pill sold for less than a chocolate bar.

While figures from England and Wales have stabilised in recent years, drug deaths have doubled in the past decade in Scotland and are accelerating.

In almost two thirds of these deaths, the sedative benzodiazepine was found in the bloodstream.

These so-called "Street Valiums" can be bought for just 30p per pill, even somewhere as crowded and busy as central Glasgow during rush hour.

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