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more and More people in Scotland die from drugs than ever before and The Number of deaths on any part of the country.

A study by, and studied the record rise in a rural area - Dumfries and Galloway.

the rise of the drug-Could-related deaths in the South-west of Scotland to a growing black market trade in Pills bought by Social Media ?

'I've heard that they' D bought the tablets online " Marianne lost her Daughter Kym drugs Marianne had not heard from her Daughter in Three Days . Their calls remained unanswered.

you have visited box Kym the apartment in the small Eastern Galloway town of Castle Douglas and twice peering through the letter.

Increasingly anxious, Marianne, issued an appeal to their Facebook friends. Had seen someone, her Daughter ? Did you know where she was? Did you know anything at all?

Nobody could help.

"I think, on Friday Night , I knew somehow," says Marianne.

"I thought to myself, 'I think it is simply a lie that flat. "

Rural areas, like Marianne, have seen an increase in The Number of drug-related deaths The Following afternoon, a lone policeman arrived at Marianne's cottage in the village of Glenlochar.

Marianne says, that it can be used to tell the case that Two officers would visit someone's death.

"I just saw a police woman said, and I said, 'Well, she is obviously in order, because it's not the Two of you'. "

The Officer said: "I'm really sorry. "

"I broke into tears and cried out," Marianne says.

"I was angry, devastated. I had just spoken to her a couple of days ago and she kissed me and said, 'I love you, Mama."

"I told her that we were Here , only a mile away, always at the end of The Phone .

"that was The Last time we spoke. "

Kym was just 31 when she died Kym, the 31 was.

you had to move an army child, struggling to make lasting friendships.

If you have arrived in Dumfries and Galloway, says Marianne, she was overweight and self-conscious.

they fell in with the wrong people.

In her late Teens, she was addicted to Heroin .

Kym first Partner , The Father of her first child, died of an overdose in 2007.

the prison was a frequent occurrence, your addiction battle has been life long.

Kym's post-mortem examination found three types of drugs in your system:

"Hear from your friends in the background, I Heard that you had bought these tablets online," says Marianne.

"China. Or somewhere. It was a certain group that they had, and had died with them. "

Kym - A Mother of Two was one of 12 in The Number of drug-related deaths in Dumfries and Galloway in 2018 confirmed.

five More deaths are likely to be added to The Final tally corresponds to the region the second-highest drug-death as a whole.

In 2017, a record 22 deaths drug related in this largely rural area, stretching More Than 80 miles from the Solway coast.

The largest towns of Dumfries and Stranraer, but the drug-related deaths were also distributed across smaller villages and hamlets.

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Pills online delivered post-there are an estimated 1,100 to 1,600 "problem drug users" under Dumfries and Galloway is 148,000 residents.

A recent report by The Local NHS drug and alcohol group cited that a greater number of people access to your services, a contribution to the load on the pharmacy budget.

in commercial radio, a display to warn The Local population about the signs of a drug overdose.

Dumfries courier newspaper offers poignant testimony of The Father buried his son," after a fatal cocktail of Heroin and tablets.

street worker says it was a 30% decline in The Number of needles to addicts in The Last year, the less people with the syringe of Heroin .

this is, in part, by the "enforcement activities" that have disrupted the illicit drug supply network in the region.

The NHS also report that "a significant increase of drugs obtained via The Internet , namely Valium and Xanax , which are not injected in the form of tablets and in the rule".

Justin Murray , head of the drug and alcohol service in Dumfries and Galloway, said the Social Media was a "game-changer" for drug-purchasing habits.

Justin said Murray were addicts who prefer to buy Xanax Pills , "the people are on drugs differently now," he says.

"you are accessing a wider range of drugs, and they have different quantities. This is the biggest change we have seen in The Last four to five years. "

Mr Murray says users have told him they would rather buy than five Xanax tablets as a bag of Heroin .

He says: "you will be tablets for the Xanax , because they have a greater impact and a longer effect. "

'It's not the Heroin . It is the tablets' Dumfries is the largest town in the region, Vanessa is a 39-year-old recovering Heroin addict in Dumfries , agrees that her former drug of choice, nothing is "" now.

Bbc Scotland , who died in the year 2017, with Two People in her presence said.

Vanessa woke up next to her Partner dead in bed. He had died in his sleep.

Five months later, she found her friend dead in The Living room. Had you died in your sleep.

"I did Heroin for about a year and a half now," she says.

"But I was a couple of street tablets like Pregabalin . "

Vanessa says that they have not so much now, since the mortality rate of Pills , "through the roof".

she says: "you see, this is more the era now. It's not the Heroin . It is the tablets. "

', This Xanax business is really a whole new" traders on Social Media are quite open about what they do, Heroin and other opiates are still the most important killer of searches for players in Dumfries and Galloway.

However, studies show a growing number of deaths with other drugs.

Bbc Scotland The Nine and disclosure studied 70 death certificates of people in South-west Scotland, where controlled substances were cited as the cause between 2012 and 2017.

About five years, Heroin , methadone and other opiates have been 51 deaths were involved.

However, other substances have shown that an increasing impact in The Last few years, especially benzodiazepines such as diazepam (Valium ), alprazolam (Xanax ), and the neuropathic pain agent Pregabalin and gabapentin.

Etizolam is known as a fake Valium , and 299 deaths in Scotland in 2017 - also appears.

by the time of Dumfries and Galloway-record-drugs-death, Two -thirds of the deaths studied from Bbc Scotland total in 2017 contain other substances in The Mix .

Mark Blount , a pharmacist in Kirkcudbright, told Bbc Scotland that it was this mixture of opiates and pain killers are often a deadly combination.

He says it could be breathing an addict, one flat And Then ", you would simply cease to breathe."

to discuss All the three months, a review group, consisting of NHS-doctors, support workers, police and prison services-met, The Last , The Number of drug-related suspected deaths in the region.

A review group meets to look at all of the three months, The Number of drug-related discussed deaths in the area of the seven deaths, during the December part-session in Dumfries police office, all were listed in connection with drugs.

A Number of them contain alprazolam (or Xanax ).

Andrew Carnon consultant in Public Health medicine and Chairman of The Group , spoke to the BBC as he left The Meeting .

He said: "These Xanax business. This is really quite new. We have not seen that in Dumfries and Galloway before.

"I think I remember maybe one or Two Deaths associated with Xanax , whereas today, we can seen really a lot. "

Xanax is an anti-anxiety medication that is available only on private prescription in the UK - a wave that breaks on the surface.

'It is to simply say, now,' Iain Campbell is a former drug addict who now works as a volunteer at a recovery charity Former drug addict Iain Campbell, he found roam The Streets for hours, the drugs he was looking for.

"Now, go to Facebook, go to Whats App, Two minutes, sorted," he says.

", And maybe only 20 Minutes later it is delivered. It is too easy now. "

Iain got clean in 2012, after a member of the family died of a Heroin overdose, and he is now a volunteer at the First Base charity in Dumfries .

He says, Dumfries and Galloway is a large rural area and cell phone apps have made it much easier to get a for drug users what they want.

According to Iain, 90% of the Pills , the packages come from abroad in film through The Post or courier company.

tablets, such as diazepam drugs, "The Price , not of choice," said Mark Frankland, The Founder of the First Base .

'provider on the Dream Market 'Some of those who are Here knew died with each other.

Vanessa donated the bed, where your Partner has died, a friend.

, That of the friend of the Daughter - her name was Becky, and later died on the same mattress, four months later, an overdose of Heroin and gabapentin.

Two other young friends died on the same day in various apartments in Annan.

One of them is Becky's ex-Partner was.

the friends knew, in turn, others.

drug use, stranraer, dumfries

Source of news: bbc.com