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Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) implicated deaths and prescribing: evidence review

Published: 15 March 2022
From: Director-General Health and Social Care
Directorate: Population Health Directorate
Topic: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781804351833

This paper summarises current knowledge of trends around methadone and buprenorphine related deaths and changes to prescribing practice in Scotland.

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An errata was published on Thursday 17th March 2022 as a result of changes on PDF page 7 to the figure for gabapentinoids implicated in methadone-implicated deaths, and to the percentage increase of buprenorphine-implicated deaths since 2019.

The HTML and PDF have been updated to reflect these changes.

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