Alcohol and drug treatment of under 19 year olds (FOI)

​Request

A

The number of people under 19 years who have received hospital treatment or medical assistance after drinking alcohol in the last four years, including so far in 2017 (broken down by year).

If you could break down what that treatment was eg treatment in hospital, treatment in A&E, referrals to substance abuse services, or any other kind.

B

The number of teenagers received hospital treatment or medical assistance after taking illegal drugs in the last four years (broken down by year).

If you could break down what that treatment was eg treatment in hospital, emergency treatment in A&E, or any other kind.

C

The number of people under 19 referred to substance abuse services.

D

What was the youngest age of someone who received any of the treatments mentioned above for drinking alcohol in that period, and if you could specify what that treatment was?

E

What was the youngest age of someone who received any of the treatments mentioned above treatment for taking illegal drugs?

Response

All diagnosis codes were used in the primary position indicating the main cause of the inpatient admission.

Where numbers are less than five (<5), the data is not provided in order to avoid the identification of individuals and Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

A 

The table below shows the number of hospital inpatient admissions with an alcohol related diagnosis for patients under the age of 19.

Emergency Department and Outpatient appointments are not coded in the same detail as inpatient admissions and are not included in the above data. Further treatment information is not available as this would not be achievable within 12.5 hours and therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

B 

The table below shows the number of hospital inpatient admissions with a drug related diagnosis for patients under the age of 19.

Emergency Department and Outpatient appointments are not coded in the same detail as inpatient admissions and are not included in the above data. Further treatment information is not available as this would not be achievable within 12.5 hours and therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

C

The table below shows the number of referrals to the Alcohol and Drug service for people under the age of 19.

D and E

These questions cannot be answered due to the risk of identifying the individual concerned and Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

Diagnosis codes used were as follows:

Drugs

T40.1: Poisoning: Heroin

T40.2: Poisoning: Other opioids

T40.3: Poisoning: Methadone

T40.4: Poisoning: Other synthetic narcotics

T40.6: Poisoning: Other and unspecified narcotics

T40.7: Poisoning: Cannabis (derivatives)

T40.9: Poisoning: Other and unspecified psychodysleptics [hallucinogens]

Alcohol

F10.0: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol: Acute intoxication

F10.1: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol: Harmful use

F10.2: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol: Dependence syndrome

F10.3: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol: Withdrawal state

F10.4: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol: Withdrawal state with delirium

Exemptions and / or refusals applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law

Article 16 - cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.