Admissions to hospital for drug-related mental health problems soar

English hospitals treating twice the number of people with drug-related disorders’ they did 10 years ago

Soaring numbers of children, young people and pensioners in England are being taken to hospital after suffering serious mental disorders as a result of taking drugs, NHS figures reveal.

Hospitals are treating more than double the number of people for what the NHS calls “drug-related mental and behavioural disorders” than they did 10 years ago.

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