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Alcoholism and Drugs: Death

Commons · Question 17439 · Tabled 2 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 9 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Paul Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce death rates from (a) alcohol, (b) drugs and (c) suicide in (a) the North and (b) coastal regions.

Answer

Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 9 Dec 2024

A vital part of delivering the Health Mission shift to prevention will be action to reduce the number of deaths due to alcohol and drug use, especially in deprived areas. In England, rates of drug poisoning and drug misuse deaths have a marked north-south...