Drugs and alcohol in Wokingham.

Wokingham local authority · 4 cards

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

Plain-English context

Around 3.3 in every 1,000 people aged 15 to 64 in Wokingham 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. The age-standardised hospital admission rate for alcoholic liver disease was 17.6 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 5.6 per 100,000 per year, averaged across 2022 to 2024. The age-standardised death rate from drug misuse was 2.7 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.

Opiate and crack use

3.3

Estimated users per 1,000 people aged 15 to 64.

England: 8.5 · Better

Wokingham · 2022/23 · Persons, 15-64 yrs

Source: OHID Fingertips · #91117 · Modelled estimate, published every few years.

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Alcohol and the liver

17.6

Age-standardised alcoholic liver disease admissions per 100,000.

England: 49.4 · Better 99.8%

Wokingham · 2022/23 · Persons, All ages

Source: OHID Fingertips · #90929 · Should be treated with caution due to Frimley Health Foundation Trust not submitting any HES data for June 2022 to March 2023. In 2021/22, between 1% and 10% of hospital patients from this area were treated at Frimley Health Foundation Trust

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