Drugs and alcohol in Westmorland and Furness.

Westmorland and Furness local authority · 3 cards

Drug use and alcohol harm in Westmorland and Furness — modelled hidden drug use, recorded alcoholic liver disease, and drug misuse deaths.

Plain-English context

No publishable opiate and crack cocaine use estimate is available for Westmorland and Furness in the selected period. The age-standardised hospital admission rate for alcoholic liver disease was 38.1 per 100,000 in 2022/23. Admissions count episodes, not individual people. The age-standardised death rate from alcoholic liver disease before age 75 was 12.6 per 100,000 per year, averaged across 2022 to 2024. The age-standardised death rate from drug misuse was 9.9 per 100,000 per year, averaged across 2022 to 2024. Drug-use estimates and recorded alcohol harms measure different things and are not directly comparable. Missing or suppressed rates are not zero.

Sources: DHSC and UKHSA opiate and crack cocaine use prevalence estimates; OHID alcohol liver disease admissions and mortality (Local Alcohol Profiles for England), via OHID Fingertips. Each card states its reporting period; open its share page for the retrieval date and full provenance.