{"id":34837,"date":"2018-08-24T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T11:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=34837"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:39:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T15:39:54","slug":"more-than-ten-people-a-day-died-from-drug-related-deaths-in-england-wales-last-year-increasing-rates-from-cocaine-and-fentanyl-rates-from-heroin-and-morphine-still-remain-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/34837","title":{"rendered":"More than ten people a day died from drug-related deaths in England and Wales last year:"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Increasing rates from cocaine and fentanyl, rates from heroin and morphine still remain high<\/em><\/h2>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">On 6 August 2018, the latest annual data was published relating to drug-related deaths in England and Wales. This report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is predominantly a register of fatalities from overdose or poisoning from legal and non-legal drugs.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Overall, 3756 cases were registered in 2017, compared to 3744 in 2016 and 3674 in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">More than half of these deaths (1985\/3756) were related to opiates &#8211; including heroin\/morphine (1164),\u00a0 methadone (367), tramadol (385), fentanyl and related analogues (106) and cannabis (29)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Cocaine-related deaths increased from 371 in 2016 to 432 in 2018. Antidepressants were listed as the cause of death in 484 cases.<b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">New psychoactive compounds were listed for 61 cases, included 17 people for GHB and 24 people for synthetic cannabinoids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A press statement from Release, a campaigning organisation for drug reform, highlighted the continued increase linked to cocaine and fentanyl, increasing by 16% and 80% respectively, both the highest over the 25 years that data has been collected. <\/span>They highlight the figures as a national crisis that requires a coordinated, national public health response.\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\">[2]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Release call for changes in government policy to decriminalise drug possession, to allow life-saving drug consumption rooms, scaled up access to naloxone and to reinstate budget cuts to essential drug-related services. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">England and Wales have one of the highest rates of drug-related deaths in the EU. It is more than 17 times higher than Portugal, which decriminalised all personal drug possession in 2001. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBreferences\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">References<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"HTBreferences\">Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales: 2017 registrations.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/birthsdeathsandmarriages\/deaths\/bulletins\/deathsrelatedtodrugpoisoninginenglandandwales\/2017registrations\">https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/birthsdeathsandmarriages\/deaths\/bulletins\/deathsrelatedtodrugpoisoninginenglandandwales\/2017registrations \u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"HTBreferences\">Release press release. Drug-related deaths in England &amp; Wales reach highest figure on record, Government policy directly contributing to public health crisis: Deaths relating to cocaine and fentanyl highest on record. (06 August 2018).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.release.org.uk\/media-enquiries\">https:\/\/www.release.org.uk\/media-enquiries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing rates from cocaine and fentanyl, rates from heroin and morphine still remain high Simon Collins, HIV i-Base On 6 August 2018, the latest annual data was published relating to drug-related deaths in England and Wales. This report from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}