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Rehab News:New figures on drug related deaths published by np SAD

The National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (np-SAD) recently published its annual report on drug-related deaths in the UK.
Some of the main findings of the report include:

Notifications of 1,539 drug-related deaths occurring in 2007 were received by the Programme. A total of 107 coroners from 115 jurisdictions in England & Wales, aswell as from Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, together with one Procurator Fiscal from Scotland, provided data. The total number of drug-related deaths(DRDs)reported in 2007 indicates an increase of 12.7% over the number reported 1,366) in the previous Annual Report.

When the figures derived from data provided by the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency included the total number of drug-related deaths (DRDs) reported in 2007 for the UK is 1,900. This represents an increase of 8.4% in the number reported by the same sources in 2006(1,752).

The demographic profile of fatalities reported to the np-SAD remains consistent with previous reports. The majority of cases were males (77%), under the age of 45 years (71%), and White (95%).

The principal underlying cause(s) of death were: accidental poisoning (63%); intentional self-poisoning (13%); and poisoning of undetermined intent (12%).

Opiates/opioids (i.e.heroin/morphine; methadone; otheropiates/opioidanalgesics), alone or in combination with other drugs, accounted for the majority (71%) of all np-SAD cases.

Heroin/morphine alone or in combination with other drugs, accounted for the highest proportion (48%) of fatalities, a slight increase over the 2006 level of 46%.