Mounting concerns are being raised about a potent drug 2,000 times more powerful than heroin and blamed for an 'epidemic' of deaths in Scotland.
Health campaigners have warned of a 'crisis on top of crisis' due to the growing use and abuse of a dangerous opioid across the country.
Scotland has been named the drug death capital of Europe for the seventh successive year.
And although the number of fatalities have fallen to their lowest levels in eight years and dropped by 13 per cent compared to 2023, the nation's drug death rate - which is 191 per 1million people - remains the worst in Europe.
There were 1,017 drug misuse deaths in Scotland last year, new figures from the National Records of Scotland have shown this week.
