Table 1

(source Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland, 2002)

New patients

Use of illicit methadone

Number of prescriptions for methadone

Number of prescriptions per 1000 population


GGNHSB (Glasgow)

1366

30

115,049

127

Lothian Health Board (Edinburgh)

593

130

30,818

39


Roberts and Hunter Harm Reduction Journal 2004 1:6   doi:10.1186/1477-7517-1-6

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