§ Mr. Corbettasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what estimate he has made of the number of deaths attributable to drug abuse, particularly heroin addiction, in each of the past five years for which figures are available; and whether there is any discernible relationship between known or estimated length of level of addiction and age of death.
§ Mrs. Currie[pursuant to her reply, 27 October 1986]: The following table shows separately numbers of deaths where the underlying cause was drug dependence and non-dependent abuse of drugs, particularly morphine type drugs. Information on the relationship between length of level of addiction and age of death is not held centrally.