Fentanyl and cocaine drug deaths rise

Due to synthetic opioid fentanyl, the number of deaths in England and Wales rose by 29% in 2017, shows offices for national statistics figures.

The form of medicine - used to treat cancer pain - is often imported from Chinese labs illegally and the users are sold through the dark web.

Mortality decreases from psychoactive substances such as spices or mephedrone.

Drug policy promoters asked the government to stop funding for drug treatment and to prevent users from making criminals.

Martin Powell of the Transform Drug Policy Foundation said, "The UK government has not been left anywhere to hide. They are responsible for the weak people who are dying in the droves."

They refused to ban politicians, or to deny, accused others of proven measures to save a life in other countries.

For the first time since 2012 heroin and morphine-related deaths decreased for the first time, while cocaine deaths increased.

Overall, 3,756 people were registered in England and Wales in 2017 as death by legal and illegal drugs. ONS said that this figure was "stagnant" with only 12 more deaths compared to last year.

The rate of England and Wales rates of 1 million per 66.1 drugs is three times higher than that of the European Union, Turkey and Norway (according to the figures of the European medicine report).

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Increased from 58 in 2017 to 75 in 2017.

The drug has been found to be mixed with heroin, which is causing casual overdose among users.

The most dangerous version of the episode known as carfentanyl was behind 27 casualty deaths during the year - for the first time, it was recorded in death certificates.

Harry Shapiro, Director of Drug Wise, said that the fentanyl thrown in Britain's drug supply was at least 100 times stronger than other classes A. Medicines.

He said that a small amount can be fatal.

Meanwhile, 432 deaths were reported in cocaine in 2017 - the highest amount has been recorded so far.

Earlier this year, Security Minister Ben Wallace had warned that Britain "is rapidly becoming the largest consumer of cocaine in Europe".

The latest figures have shown that in the northeast of England there was a high rate of death of drugs compared to other areas - 83 million people - after this, after the northwest of England and Wales. The lowest deaths were in London.

In Scotland, the deaths of medicines in the year 2017 were high and the worst in Europe, the figures were revealed last month.

Analysis
BBC Home Editor, by Mark Easton

There is a line on the cut behind the record number of deaths from drug toxicity.

In 2016, the government's official drug advisory body told the ministers that the most important way to reduce the death of drugs was to protect money for opioid replacement therapy (OST) - road heroin users like methadone or diamorphine (pharmaceutical heroin) Setting Medications

More than half the deaths last year were more than operatives' opiates, including heroin, and OST is credited with saving hundreds of lives every year.

Responding to the Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs Recommendations last year, the Home Office fully responded to the OST, "agreed that" widely recognized in helping to reduce the deaths in excessive amounts. Received and certified protective effect ".

However, funding for such drug therapy comes from public health subsidies distributed to local councils, and as a part of government's measures to reduce the deficit, hundreds of millions of pounds have been deducted annually.

It has been estimated that the Council expenditure on adult drug treatment will fall 26% from 2014.

Consultant addiction psychiatrist Dr Emily Finch told today's program that in the last 5-10 years, funding for drug and alcohol treatment services has resulted in approximately 30% loss.

"Generally, the system is less and less fit for the purpose," she said.

"In treatment, there is security against death."

Professor Fiona Mesam, who is Dr Along with Finch, members of the Advisory Council on the misuse of drugs, also asked for an increase in the drug treatment fund.

She said that for many people, the use of medicine is a "symptom" of past life, misbehaviour or core problems in their lives, rather than "the root of the problem".

He said, "Big concern for us about recreational drug users is five times the increase in ecstatic deaths and a three-fold increase in cocaine-related deaths," they said that they are being sold due to high purity or contaminated substances.