Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of drug use disorders on Disability-Adjusted Life Years lost in each region of England for each year for which data is available.

There has been no formal assessment of disability adjusted life years lost through drug use disorders broken down by regional level.

An assessment of years of life lost through drug use disorders is available in the publication Changes in health in England, with analysis by English regions and areas of deprivation, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. It assesses the scale of health lost from diseases and injuries in 2013, and estimates the attributable impact of risk factors; data for drug use disorders is included. This report does not include a regional assessment of Disability Adjusted Life Years. It was published on 15 September and is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/burden-of-disease-study-for-england

This analysis was conceived and produced jointly by Public Health England and the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington.