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PHS warned that the drug was most likely to be consumed unintentionally because it was being cut into other drugs.

The latest data from PHS, for the week ending 14 July, had the number of cases in Scotland at 1,130.

And in October, PHS updated the alert after the substances were found in post mortem results.

“Applying the PHS policy to cephalopods is challenging at this time,” the NIH wrote.

Based on comparisons with England, analysis by PHS estimates that there were 13.4% fewer deaths related to alcohol than would have happened without the policy, as well as 4.1% fewer hospital admissions.