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Victims getting older as drugs take toll

Heroin used to take young lives. Now it takes old ones too, as Scotland�s annual toll of drug-related deaths revealed yesterday. There were 421 - more than ever before.

Heroin used to take young lives. Now it takes old ones too, as Scotland's annual toll of drug-related deaths revealed yesterday.

There were 421, more than ever before, and all but 69 were over the age of 25 while 70 were over 45.