Hospital admissions related to drug misuse (FOI)

​Request

I would like to know how many hospital admissions related to drug misuse in the past five years, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and so far this year.

Among those, how many involved illegal drugs?

How many deaths were registered as being due to drug misuse in the past five years, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and so far this year.

Among those, how many involved illegal drugs?

I would like to know how many hospital admissions related to alcohol misuse in the past five years, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and so far this year.

I would like to know how many deaths were registered as being related to alcohol misuse in the past five years, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and so far this year.
 

Response

Hospital inpatient admissions are coded using ICD10 diagnosis codes. All codes listed in this request were used in the primary diagnosis position only.

Numbers less than five are not reported here to avoid unfairly disclosing personal data and are represented as <5.

The term ’drug’ does not exclusively cover illegal recreational substances. As per a clarification from the requester, the following drug codes were used for this request:

F11.3: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids: Withdrawal state
F12.0: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cannabinoids: Acute intoxication
F12.1: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cannabinoids: Harmful use
F12.5: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cannabinoids: Psychotic disorder
F13.4: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of sedatives or hypnotics: Withdrawal state with delirium
F15.0: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of other stimulants, including caffeine: Acute intoxication
F17.1: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of tobacco: Harmful use
F17.3: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of tobacco: Withdrawal state
F19.0: Mental and behavioural disorders due to multiple drug use and use of other psychoactive substances: Acute intoxication
T40.1: Poisoning: Heroin
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]
T42.1: Poisoning: Iminostilbenes
T42.3: Poisoning: Barbiturates
T42.4: Poisoning: Benzodiazepines
T43.5: Poisoning: Other and unspecified antipsychotics and neuroleptics
T43.6: Poisoning: Psychostimulants with abuse potential
T48.5: Poisoning: Anti-common-cold drugs
T50.1: Poisoning: Loop [high-ceiling] diuretics
T65.8: Toxic effect: Toxic effect of other specified substances
T65.9: Toxic effect: Toxic effect of unspecified substance
T60.3: Toxic effect: Herbicides and fungicides
T61.2: Toxic effect: Other fish and shellfish poisoning
T62.0: Toxic effect: Ingested mushrooms
T62.2: Toxic effect: Other ingested (parts of) plant(s)
T62.9: Toxic effect: Noxious substance eaten as food, unspecified
T63.4: Toxic effect: Venom of other arthropods
T63.6: Toxic effect: Toxic effect of contact with other marine animals
T63.9: Toxic effect: Toxic effect of contact with unspecified venomous animal

It is also important to note that these diagnosis codes cannot identify ‘misuse’, only that a particular substance was the cause of the primary diagnosis of the episode.

Please find below a link to the table detailing hospital admissions recorded in relation to drugs and alcohol.

Hospital admissions due to drugs and alcohol

Deaths due to alcohol/drugs

All deaths in Jersey are categorised by the Health Statistics Unit of the States of Jersey by reference to the UK Office of National Statistics.

Not all coding is complete for 2016, and for this reason, figures for 2012 – 2015 are reported below.

Inquest findings often indicate that a combination of substances have contributed towards a death. A detailed breakdown is supplied below.

Please note that illegal drugs are those not available on prescription, whilst prescription drugs are those obtainable on prescription, whether or not they were prescribed to the individual or illicitly obtained.

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(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.