§ Mrs. Helen JacksonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of recorded deaths from(a) methadone and (b) heroin overdose for each coroner's area of the United Kingdom last year.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThis information is not collected centrally. In 1992, the latest year for which information is available, 76 notified drug addicts in the United Kingdom died because of an overdose of methadone, and 129 addicts died because of an overdose of heroin, morphine or other unspecified opiate drugs.