Drugs and alcohol in Windsor and Maidenhead.

Windsor and Maidenhead local authority · 2 cards

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

Plain-English context

Around 5.4 in every 1,000 people aged 15 to 64 in Windsor and Maidenhead are estimated to use opiates and/or crack cocaine (2022/23). DHSC and UKHSA modelled the size of a hidden population, not people in treatment. No separate publishable alcoholic liver disease admission rate is available for Windsor and Maidenhead in 2022/23. The age-standardised death rate from alcoholic liver disease before age 75 was 10.3 per 100,000 per year, averaged across 2022 to 2024. No separate publishable drug misuse death rate is available for Windsor and Maidenhead in 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.