Thursday 8 February 2018

Drug-related mental health admissions in NHS hit record high

Drug-related mental health admissions in NHS hit record high 82,135 hospital admissions had a primary or secondary diagnosis of drug-related disorders. The annual number of hospital admissions in England with a diagnosis of a drug-related mental or behavioural disorder has reached an all-time high, figures show.
There were 82,135 hospital admissions in the year to April 2017 with a primary or secondary diagnosis of drug-related mental and behavioural disorders, according to the NHS figures. That compares with 81,904 over the same period a year earlier and 38,170 in 2006-07. Guardian

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