Originally Posted by
Organ Morgan.
I notice 6 of the bottom 7 countries for drug-related deaths at the BBC link in the opening post are East European. The one which isn't, Portugal, has a more liberated approach which has proved wildly successful. Bottom of all is Romania. It's definitely the poorest too and a certainty their citizens have less disposable income and suffer greater levels of deprivation than Scotland's population. I think we can safely discount the possibility of taking solace in mind-altering substances as relief from misery to explain why one's top and the other is bottom. Perhaps it's cultural reasons or that heroin and the like is less easily available. Another possibility is Scots, for whatever reasons, have a difficult to pinpoint weakness for prohibited drugs (and for grog too) compared to the rest of the UK.
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