Connolly, Dean J and Copeland, Caroline S and Holland, Adam and Williams, Adam D N and Shorter, Gillian W (2026) Exclusion of LGBTQ+ people from the UK's alcohol and other drug-related death response. International Journal of Drug Policy, 151, 105219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105219.
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Driven by longstanding social inequality, policy stagnation, and an increasingly toxic, adulterated, criminalised drug market, the UK has experienced sustained increases in mortality from alcohol and other drugs over the past decade, with recent rates unprecedented in national records (Holland et al., 2023). Despite the scale of this crisis, public health discourse frequently treats people who use substances as one homogenous group, obscuring structural drivers that concentrate harm within marginalised communities.
B Substances > Alcohol
P Demography, epidemiology, and history > Population dynamics / statistics > Substance related mortality / death
T Demographic characteristics > Homosexual, gay, bisexual, lesbian, transgender, LGBTQ+
VA Geographic area > Europe > United Kingdom
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