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Drug Deaths Shooting Up in Wales, UK
The number of people killed by overdosing on Class A substances has shot up by a staggering 117%.
In the most deprived areas, the drug misuse mortality rate is likely to be five times higher than in better-off towns and cities.
The province is now one of the country’s worst drug hotspots, with 189 addicts dying last year after bingeing on cocaine, ecstasy and heroin, Wales on Sunday revealed.
Close to 1,000 people have died from drug abuse since records first started in 1993.
Denbighshire, in North Wales, recently moved up the league table to become the fourth worst place in the whole of the UK for drug-related deaths.
Seventy-eight in every 100,000 people living there die taking illegal substances, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics.
About a third of all adults have used illicit drugs at least once in their life – while one in 10 have tried them out in the last year.
Men are more than twice as likely to use drugs than women. And there is a widespread epidemic among under-25-year-olds – with almost a quarter using drugs in the last year.
When records began in 1993, just 87 addicts died from drug misuse in Wales. That, however, is in stark contrast to the 189 who died in 2007 after substance abuse.
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