Alex Stevens

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Programs for the treatment of heroin addicts has been cut, experts say

the number of drug-related deaths rose significantly in England and Wales have reached record numbers in the last year, according to official figures.

It 2,917 deaths were said cases of illicit drug in the year 2018, The Office for National statistics, an increase of 17%.

Most of the deaths were on other opiates like heroin, but cocaine-related deaths doubled in three years.

A government adviser, debt cuts to treatment programs, while the health officials said they were commissioning an independent review.

a total of 4,359 people died because of drug poisoning in the last year, the ONS said, a figure that includes accidental overdoses and suicides of drugs as well as illegal drugs.

It was also the largest annual increase in the number of drug-related deaths since records began in 1993, the statisticians said.

deaths due to drug abuse in men between the ages of 40 and 49 of the rose "significantly," they added.

The North-East had the highest mortality rate in England, while in London, the lowest had.

deaths from new psychoactive substances, so-called "legal highs" until they were banned in 2016 - has doubled in a year, to 125, after a decline in the previous year. MDMA deaths increased from 56 to 92.

Professor Alex Stevens of the University of Kent, those who serve the government, the advisory council on the misuse of drugs, said there had been a 47% increase in deaths due to drug poisoning since 2013.

'Decimate funding'

He told BBC Radio 4 's Today programme that cuts to treatment services by 27% within three years, were The Cause for the recent increases.

"These treatments save Lives - they are about to die half as likely to when You are in opioid substitution treatment than if You don't and You will also save money by reducing the cost to the NHS and to the reduction of crime," he said.

Why are more dying people to illegal drug use?

It is a real frustration for frontline drug workers, experts and scientists at a record number of people die of illegal drugs in England and Wales.

The blame game has cuts started with the fingers pointed to the government and to reduce an error in the implementation of evidence-based measures of the deaths.

say to the other, the responsibility lies with many of the drug users themselves.

The Home Office that half of all illicit drug-related deaths are among users that have either never been In Treatment , or You have not done so for many years.

The purity of heroin and crack cocaine is increasing, the price will fall and suppliers will always get more sophisticated, their products to customers in any part of the country.

The said Transform Drug Policy Foundation, the rate of drug-related deaths in the UK was to reach now More Than double the European average, and 12 times that of Portugal, the decriminalization of drug possession in 2001.

Shirley Cramer, chief executive of the Royal Society for Public Health , said the figures were "predictable and preventable as they are tragic".

"The case for a compassionate, harm-reduction approach has now been clear for years - and yet the government continue with tough rhetoric around law enforcement, while presiding over sustainable cuts to local authority budgets," She Said .

Rose Humphries, lost Two Children to heroin overdoses, and campaigns against current drug laws, told the people how their sons were treated as "Collateral Damage " by the government.

A Department of health and Social Care spokesperson for drug abuse said was at a similar level to a decade ago, but added: "We are absolutely committed to, to reduce it and the damage it caused. "

The government has mandated a "large independent review" of the drug, studied The System of support and enforcement, She Said .

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Source of news: bbc.com