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In 2023, 3,618 deaths in England and Wales [1] and 1,172 in Scotland were recorded as “drug misuse”. [2] Deaths from drugs overtook traffic fatalities in the United Kingdom as a leading cause of death in 2008, and the numbers have continued to rise. Those most likely to die are working class, over 40 and living in de-industrialised areas ...
In 2023, there were 10,473 deaths from alcohol-specific causes registered in the UK, the highest number on record. This is 4.2% higher than in 2022 and 38.4% higher than in 2019, the last pre # ...
The drug crisis in Scotland (also known as the drug deaths crisis or drug epidemic) is an ongoing crisis regarding mortality rates over drug related/misuse deaths in the country. Drug related deaths started to rise during the 1980s. From 2015 onwards the mortality rate of drug misuse deaths in Scotland has increased rapidly, prompting calls of ...
Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, citizenship at birth, nationality (in addition to British), or/and home nation, what subject was noted for, birth year, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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Under the new calculations, there were an estimated 10,994 excess deaths in the UK in 2023 – around a third of the total using the traditional method, which was 31,442. (PA Graphics)
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