Glasgow City
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| Population | 626,410 (2018) |
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| Area | 1422736852 |
| Points of interest | Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum |
| Colleges and universities | University of Glasgow |
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| ID | 2067317 |
About Glasgow City
Greater Glasgow is an urban settlement in Scotland consisting of all localities which are physically attached to the city of Glasgow, forming with it a single contiguous urban area.
UK's first drug consumption room to get go-ahead
... A report on the facility prepared by officials from the NHS and Glasgow City Council says it aims to tackle the problem of " approximately 400 to 500 people injecting drugs in public places in Glasgow City centre on a regular basis"...
Glasgow drug consumption room could be approved in weeks
... The minister has been examining plans for a pilot project developed by Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) and Police Scotland, facilitated by the Scottish government...
Billy Connolly mural under threat by Glasgow student housing
... Glasgow City Council, which is considering the plans, said the mural was only intended to be temporary...
Brexit: EU-derived equal pay protections to be brought back
... And SNP-led Glasgow City Council is still involved, despite paying out a total of £500m to current and former workers...
'With so many changes, Glasgow's lost its heart'
... Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken has suggested exploring the use of compulsory sales orders, which would allow the council to take action against absent owners...
Scottish drug deaths drop to lowest level for five years
... Glasgow City and Dundee City have had the highest rates of drug misuse deaths over the past five years while East Renfrewshire and Aberdeenshire had the lowest rates...
World's top cyclists take to Scotland's roads
... It ends with 10 laps of a Glasgow City centre circuit...
David Goodwillie: Prosecutors urged to re-open rape case
... Rape Crisis Scotland said the club had sent a " clear message of disregard" to survivors of rape and sexual violence, while Glasgow City Council has threatened to bar the club from its training facility if it signs the former Dundee United, Aberdeen and Blackburn player...
Scottish drug deaths drop to lowest level for five years
The Number of people who died due to Drug Misuse in Scotland Last Year fell by 279 to the lowest level for five years.
Figures from National Records of Scotland show 1,051 people died of Drug Misuse in 2022.
It is The First significant drop following several years of record high totals.
However, Scotland continues to have the worst drug death rate in the UK and the rest of Europe.
Despite The Fall in Drug Misuse deaths, they are still More Than Three Times as common as they were two decades ago.
Glasgow City and Dundee City have had the highest rates of Drug Misuse deaths over The Past five years while East Renfrewshire and Aberdeenshire had the lowest rates.
Opiates and opioids, including heroin, morphine and methadone, were implicated in More Than eight out of 10 drug-related deaths in 2022.
The majority of Drug Misuse deaths were classified as accidental poisonings, with 7% classed as intentional self-poisonings.
The rate of drug poisoning deaths in Scotland was 2. 7 times as high as the UK average in 2021, The Most recent year that data is available for the UK as a whole.
Julie Ramsay, head of demographic statistics at National Records of Scotland, said drug deaths had been rising for two decades, with a particularly sharp increase after 2013.
The latest statistics are the biggest year-on-year decrease since recording began in 2000, She Said .
" Those living in The Most deprived areas of Scotland are almost 16 times as likely to die from Drug Misuse compared to people living in the least deprived areas, " Ms Ramsay said.
Males are twice as likely to die from Drug Misuse than females, Ms Ramsay said, and the age profile of Drug Misuse deaths has become older, now averaging 45.
Over The Past two decades, Drug Misuse deaths in Scotland has increased most years, with the largest rise in 2018.
The highest number of Drug Misuse deaths on record was in 2020 where there were 1,339 deaths (25. 2 per 100,000 people).
The figure for 2022 was 19. 8 deaths for every 100,000 people in Scotland.
The Glasgow City Council area had the highest rate of Drug Misuse deaths over a five year period (44. 4 per 100,000) closely followed by Dundee City (43. 1).
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
