The document contains information from various sources about drugs, alcohol, and related harms. It includes statistics on deaths in custody, drug and alcohol prices in different regions, alcohol sales data showing cheap prices, drug use in prisons has increased significantly with almost daily use, childhood abuse is linked to various mental health and substance use issues later in life, injecting equipment provision outlets in Scotland have seen a large rise in attendances, approximately one in six people with drug dependence receive treatment globally, alcohol-related deaths are much higher in males than females and increase with age.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - Oct 2016Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - Nov 2016Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - Oct 2016Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - Nov 2016Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - March 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - April 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - Dec 2016Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - July 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - Feb 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - May 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - June 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Drug related deaths in England and Wales reported in 2014Andrew Brown
The Office for National Statistics report that the rates of deaths caused by drug misuse in England and Wales is higher than at any time since comparable records began in 1993
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - November 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - August 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - October 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
10 interesting things about alcohol and other drugs that you might have misse...Andrew Brown
Including... commissioners plans to reduce spending on services, injecting drug users and HIV, smoking prevalence, proportion of new Europol cases relating to drugs, time people spend on OST, regional variation on emergency hospital admissions for alcohol related liver disease, prisoners use of substances and their relationship to the crimes committed, numbers accessing domestic violence refuges, single homeless people's use of drugs and alcohol
Interesting things about Alcohol and Other Drugs that you might have missed -...Andrew Brown
Including drug related deaths in England and Wales, local government spending on substance misuse services, mental and behavioural problems for adult prisoners, prisoners testing positive for drugs, the use of custodial sentences for drugs offences in England and Wales
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - March 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - April 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - Dec 2016Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - July 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - Feb 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - May 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - June 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Drug related deaths in England and Wales reported in 2014Andrew Brown
The Office for National Statistics report that the rates of deaths caused by drug misuse in England and Wales is higher than at any time since comparable records began in 1993
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - November 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - August 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
Interesting things about alcohol and other drugs - October 2017Andrew Brown
One in a regular series of slide sets on interesting data about alcohol and other drugs (and the wider issues to do with multiple needs) from a UK perspective.
10 interesting things about alcohol and other drugs that you might have misse...Andrew Brown
Including... commissioners plans to reduce spending on services, injecting drug users and HIV, smoking prevalence, proportion of new Europol cases relating to drugs, time people spend on OST, regional variation on emergency hospital admissions for alcohol related liver disease, prisoners use of substances and their relationship to the crimes committed, numbers accessing domestic violence refuges, single homeless people's use of drugs and alcohol
Interesting things about Alcohol and Other Drugs that you might have missed -...Andrew Brown
Including drug related deaths in England and Wales, local government spending on substance misuse services, mental and behavioural problems for adult prisoners, prisoners testing positive for drugs, the use of custodial sentences for drugs offences in England and Wales
10 interesting things about alcohol and other drugs that you may have missed ...Andrew Brown
Including a call for the NHS and social services to address stigma issues, some of the key statistics from the Chief Medical Officer for England's report, European data on drugs and people who go to prison, drink driving offences in Great Britain, a comparison between drink driving and drug driving in those who use substances, football and alcohol offences, Lithuania as a source of methamphetamine in the UK, and the recovery rate of those using IAPT services who are diagnosed with alcohol problems.
10 things about drugs you may have missedAndrew Brown
Including: drug related deaths in Scotland, prescriptions for treating substance dependence, new psychoactive substances, numbers of benefits recipients in England with drug and alcohol problems, the number of controlled drugs prescribed by the NHS, e-cigarettes, and the use of stop and search powers for drugs as used by police in England.
10 interesting things about alcohol and other drugs you may have missed in th...Andrew Brown
We scour the data on alcohol and other drugs and here are 10 things we found in the last month that might interest you, including:
The number of high risk drug users, police estimates of the cost and purity of drugs, trends in property crime, numbers in treatment in Wales, benefit claimants with drug problems in Scotland (and alcohol problems across the UK), drugs in prison, and the support needs of single homeless people
10 interesting things about alcohol and other drugs that you might have misse...Andrew Brown
Including - tax revenue from alcohol across Europe, mortality rates for lung cancer, daily doses of OST in Scotland, milligrams of methadone prescribed in Scotland, reasons given for refusing 'place of safety' under the Mental Health Act, calls to the NPIS about drugs, prisoners ability to access drugs and alcohol in England, absconders from prison, re-offending drug offenders in England
I've been back over the data relating to alcohol in my 'interesting things' series of slide sets and picked out the most interesting ones for this year's Alcohol Awareness Week
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
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Solidarity Zone
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Russian Reader
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ABC Irkutsk
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2. Deaths in custody in England and Wales per
1,000 prisoners
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
Mar
07
Mar
08
Mar
09
Mar
10
Mar
11
Mar
12
Mar
13
Mar
14
Mar
15
Mar
16
12 months ending
Self-inflicted Natural Causes
In the 12 months to March
2016 there were 290 deaths
in prison custody, an
increase of 51 compared to
the same period of 2015.
This is a rate of 3.4 deaths
per 1,000 prisoners, up from
2.8 in the previous 12 month
period
Source: Safety in custody statistics (MoJ)
3. Price per unit of alcohol in Scotland and England
& Wales, by trade sector, 2000-2015
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
2.00
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Priceperunit(£)
E&W - On-trade Scotland - On-trade E&W - Combined
Scotland - Combined E&W - Off-trade Scotland - Off-trade
Source: MESAS alcohol sales and price update May 2016
4. More than one third (36%) of the volume of alcohol sold
in the off-trade (excluding discount retailers) in England
& Wales in 2015 was at below 45 pence a unit of
alcohol.
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
18%
20%
Under
30 p
30 -
34
35 -
39
40 -
44
45 -
49
50 -
54
55 -
59
60 -
64
65 -
69
70 -
74
75 -
79
80 -
84
85up
Source: MESAS alcohol sales and price update May 2016
Off licences in England and
Wales sold 265.8 million litres
of pure alcohol in 2015
5. Over half (54%) of strong ciders sold in the off-
trade (excluding discount retailers) in England and
Wales in 2015 were sold at below 20 pence a unit
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Under
20p
20 - 24 25 - 29 30 - 34 35 - 39 40 - 44 45 - 49 50 - 54 55 - 59 60 - 64
There were 3.6 million litres of pure
alcohol classified as strong ciders
sold in the off-trade (excluding
discount retailers) in England and
Wales in 2015
Source: MESAS alcohol sales and price update May 2016
6. Use of drugs in prison
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Used in last
month
Once or
twice
Once a
week
2-3 times a
week
Almost daily
Spice Hooch Cannabis Heroin substitutes Heroin “Frequency of use was
high. Almost half of those
who admitted using spice
said they used it daily.
This was the same for
those using heroin
substitutes, but less with
other drugs. Around a
quarter of hooch and
cannabis users took their
drug of choice daily and
four in ten used heroin
daily which represents a
huge change to drug
culture, and therefore to
the services needed by
prisoners.”
Of those using in the last month
Source: Spice: The Bird Killer. What Prisoners Think About The Use Of Spice And Other Legal Highs In Prison
7. Attributing the impact of sexual abuse in
childhood to problems in adult live in
England
11%
7%
10%
15%
17%
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
18%
Common mental
disorders
Alcohol
dependence
disorders
Drug use
disorders
Eating disorders Post-traumatic
stress disorders
Source: Transforming mental health services for children who have experienced abuse (NSPCC)
8. Number of attendances reported at Injecting
Equipment Provision outlets in Scotland; 2007/08
- 2014/15
242,584
251,349
263,424
234,127
219,384
213,098
226,056
328,329
-
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000
350,000
• In 2014/15, 288 outlets in
Scotland provided injecting
equipment. Three in four of
these outlets were located in
pharmacies.
• Approximately 330,000
attendances were reported by
injecting equipment outlets an
increase of 45% on the previous
year.
• Approximately 4.4 million
needles/syringes were
distributed by participating
outlets.
• Nationally, 71 needles/syringes
were distributed per problem
drug user.
Source: Injecting Equipment Provision in Scotland 2014/15
9. Rates of needles/syringes distributed per injecting
drug user in Scotland
80 79 79 76
66 65 62
71
-
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
2007 - 08 2008 - 09 2009 - 10 2010 - 11 2011 - 12 2012 - 13 2013 - 14 2014 - 15
Source: Injecting Equipment Provision in Scotland 2014/15
10. Global trends in the estimated number of people
with drug dependency conditions
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Miliions
Source: World Drug Report, UNDOC (2016)
“According to global estimates,
nearly one in six people with drug
use disorders access treatment
services each year.”
“People who develop
dependence and become
affected by drug use disorders
are those who account for the
vast majority of negative health
consequences among people
who use drugs. UNODC estimates
that, as of 2014, out of a quarter
of a billion past-year drug users,
more than 29 million had a drug
use disorder.”
11. Standardised Years of Life Lost due to Drug Use
Disorders per 100,000 of population
409.4
231.3
0.0
50.0
100.0
150.0
200.0
250.0
300.0
350.0
400.0
450.0
Male Female
Source: Avoidable mortality in England and Wales: 2014 ONS
12. Number of deaths from alcohol related diseases in
England and Wales in 2014 by sex and age group
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
05-09 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-69 70-74
Male Female
Source: Avoidable mortality in England and Wales: 2014 ONS
13. Positive response to question of whether you
know anyone who does this…
6%
12%
19%
38%
38%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%
Drive after taking Class A drugs
Drive after smoking cannabis
Drive when over the legal alcohol
limit
Drive when unsure if over legal
alcohol limit
Drive after drinking two pints
Source: THINK! Road Safety Biennial Survey
Drink Driving
While the vast majority of people agree that
it is dangerous and unacceptable to drive
when over the legal alcohol limit or when
unsure, the level of agreement has fallen in
2015.
Drug Driving
This is a minority behaviour, with very few
respondents saying that they ever drive after
taking Class A drugs or cannabis. Despite
this, there is a significant increase in those
stating that they know someone who ever
drives after using cannabis. This has been
accompanied by significant decreases in the
number of those thinking that these actions
are dangerous and unacceptable, although
the vast majority still agree.