Drugs: Misuse and Mental Illness
(asked on 29th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of hospital admissions for (a) drug related and (b) behavioral mental disorders in the last 12 months.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Data showing the number of hospital admissions for behavioural mental disorders cannot be provided as it is not collected in that format. NHS England has advised that there is no clear distinction within the data codes for what is classified as mental disorders or behavioural mental disorders.
The following table shows the number of finished admission episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of a drug-related mental disorder between April 2022 and March 2023, based on activity in English National Health Service hospitals and NHS-commissioned activity in the independent sector:
Diagnosis description | Primary diagnosis | Secondary diagnosis |
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol | 33,563 | 225,549 |
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids | 564 | 30,532 |
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cannabinoids | 762 | 32,811 |
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of sedatives or hypnotics | 187 | 2,366 |
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine | 494 | 11,588 |
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of other stimulants, including caffeine | 255 | 1,724 |
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of hallucinogens | 51 | 492 |
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of tobacco | 557 | 1,253,007 |
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of volatile solvents | 36 | 514 |
Mental and behavioural disorders due to multiple drug use and use of other psychoactive substances | 2,239 | 17,571 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS England
Notes:
- NHS England has advised that admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have had more than one admission within the period and an episode may be counted in more than one category.