Schottland. Scottish suspected drug deaths up almost 10 per cent There were 1,146 suspected drug deaths in Scotland last year, according to the latest Police Scotland statistics – 8 per cent up on 2024’s figure of 1,065. (Drink and Drugs News…

Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2023-2024.  Garnett MF, Miniño AM.  NCHS Data Brief. 2026 Jan;(549):10.15620/cdc/174639. doi: 10.15620/cdc/174639. PMID: 41770984; PMCID: PMC12969052. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles…

Recreational drug poisonings reported to six European poison centres from 2021 to 2024.  Hondebrink L, Faber K, Kader A, Jagpal PS, Arif T, Hermanns-Clausen M.  Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2026 Mar 4:1-8. doi: 10.1080/15563650.2026.2628073. Ep…

All-cause mortality and overdose deaths among 4192 people who inject drugs in Stockholm: a 10-year register-based cohort study.  Holmén E, Hammarberg A, Kåberg M.  Harm Reduct J. 2026 Feb 9;23(1):41. doi: 10.1186/s12954-026-01407-z. PMID…

Charting the Decline of the Fourth Wave: US Overdose Deaths by Race, Geography, and Substance Involvement.  Friedman JR, Palamar JJ, Ciccarone D, Gaines TL, Borquez A, Shover CL, Strathdee SA.  medRxiv [Preprint]. 2026 Jan 30:2026.01.25…

Bayern. Warnmeldung des Bayerischen Landeskriminalamtes - Synthetische Drogen München – Innerhalb eines Zeitraums von weniger als einem Monat wurden in Bayern (in den Regionen Oberbayern und Oberpfalz) zwei Todesfälle und ein Fall mit zwei&nbs…