Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs: Misuse

(asked on 4th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of deaths arising from alcohol and drug dependency.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 12th September 2018

Public Health England (PHE) is working with local authorities, the National Health Service and prevention and treatment providers to support their work in reducing the number of deaths arising from alcohol and drug dependency. This includes supporting improvements to help increase the number of people with alcohol and drug problems that are in treatment, helping local authorities improve their drug-related death review process and providing further advice on the provision of the opioid-overdose antidote naloxone.

In 2017 PHE launched ‘Health Matters: Preventing drug misuse deaths’, an online resource for professionals which brings together the latest data and evidence, makes the case for effective public health interventions and highlights tools and resources that can facilitate local or national action. The blog can be viewed at the following link:

https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2017/03/01/health-matters-preventing-drug-misuse-deaths/

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