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Heroin and methadone hospitalisations were much lower, increasing from 2.6 to 6.9 per 100,000, with all of the increase due to methadone use rather than heroin. Opioid-related deaths, including drugs of abuse, rose from 1.3 to 3.2 per 1,000,000 population (+146%, 2000–2015).
Apr 5, 2024 · Opioid-involved death rates decreased by 12.5%. Prescription opioid-involved death rates remained the same. Heroin-involved death rates decreased nearly 36%. Synthetic opioid-involved death rates (excluding methadone) increased over 4%. 1.
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A historical account of the heroin epidemic in England and Wales, assessing its impact on crime.
Ref: ISBN 978-1-78246-403-7, Home Office Research Report 79
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The report provides a historical account of the heroin epidemic in England and Wales and assesses its impact on crime. The analysis shows that although some heroin users commit little or no crime, a small minority commit a large enough volume of offences to affect overall crime trends.
The report analyses the spread of the epidemic and shows that local and international variations in the rise and fall in crime tended to follow the spread of heroin use.
The report concludes with quantitative analysis showing that heroin use may have been responsible for around half the rise in acquisitive crime to 1995 and between a third and a quarter of the fall since, as the cohort of users from the epidemic gradually aged, attended treatment or died.
Published 22 July 2014
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