For the first time since 1997, the number of patients admitted for drug-related stays has fallen quite sharply.

Readers will know that drug deaths and presumably incidents of hospitalisation are most common among the older users, Thatcher’s Children.

The increase in drug deaths also seems to have stalled in the last two years. See this recent post for fuller account:

Disappointment that Scotland’s drug deaths may be peaking

Scotland’s MSM and opposition parties have their fingers stuffed in their ears on this.