Holland, Adam and Copeland, Caroline S and Shorter, Gillian W and Connolly, Dean J and Wiseman, Alice and Mooney, John and Fenton, Kevin and Harris, Magdalena (2024) Nitazenes-heralding a second wave for the UK drug-related death crisis? The Lancet. Public health, 19, (2), E71-E72. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00001-X.
External website: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/...
The UK is in the midst of a drug-related crisis. Likely contributory factors include: disinvestment in drug treatment, harm reduction, and public services; changing patterns of socioeconomic deprivation; increasing poly-drug use; and an ageing cohort of people who use heroin. The UK crisis has not reached the scale of that in the US where 106 699 overdose deaths were reported in 2021. The latest wave of the crisis in the US has been driven primarily by fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, which were implicated in 88% of these deaths.
G Health and disease > Substance use disorder (addiction) > Drug use disorder > Drug intoxication > Poisoning (overdose)
P Demography, epidemiology, and history > Population dynamics > Substance related mortality / death
VA Geographic area > Europe > United Kingdom
Repository Staff Only: item control page