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Drug related mental health admissions increasing
Official figures have shown that more patients are being admitted to hospital in England for drug-related mental health issues or poisoning than at any time in the past 10 years.
With critics quick to blame falling investment in drug services for the soar in figures, it has been revealed that there were 15,074 cases of people in hospital with illicit drug poisoning in 2015-16, marking a 51 per cent increase on the figures 10 years previously.
Moreover, there were 8,621 hospital admissions in 2015/16 with a primary diagnosis of drug-related mental health and behavioural disorders, which is six per cent more than 2014/15 and 11 per cent higher than 2005/06.
Worryingly, despite NHS Digital suggesting that drug misuse was declining, the figures show how deaths related to drug misuse are now at their highest level since comparable records began in 1993.
Statistics on Drugs Misuse 2017, published by NHS Digital, draws together information about drug misuse by adults and children from a number of sources, including NHS Digital's Hospital Episode Statistics.
The 2015-16 figures revealed Blackpool had the highest rate of people admitted to hospital because of poisoning by illicit drugs, with 116 admission episodes for every 100,000 people in the area, while Liverpool had the highest rate of admissions for drug-related mental health or behavioural disorders, with 491 per 100,000 residents.
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