| Heroin / morphine 2 |
Methadone | Benzodiazepines | Cocaine | Ecstasy | Amphetamines | Alcohol | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any benzodiazepine |
of which: Diazepam |
Temazepam | |||||||
| (a) drugs which were implicated in, or which potentially contributed to, the cause of death | |||||||||
| All deaths | 254 | 174 | 122 | 93 | 3 | 33 | 0 | 3 | 127 |
| Males | 206 | 122 | 91 | 69 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 98 |
| Females | 48 | 52 | 31 | 24 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 29 |
| Under 25 | 33 | 19 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 25-34 | 96 | 54 | 41 | 31 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 46 |
| 35-44 | 84 | 64 | 43 | 32 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 41 |
| 45-54 | 31 | 32 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| 55 and over | 10 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Males | |||||||||
| Under 25 | 27 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 25-34 | 81 | 35 | 33 | 26 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 36 |
| 35-44 | 71 | 49 | 34 | 25 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 33 |
| 45-54 | 21 | 21 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 55 and over | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Females | |||||||||
| Under 25 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 25-34 | 15 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 35-44 | 13 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 45-54 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 55 and over | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| (b) all drugs which were found to be present in the body | |||||||||
| All deaths | 269 | 182 | 324 | 288 | 14 | 50 | 1 | 9 | 219 |
| Males | 215 | 129 | 253 | 226 | 9 | 39 | 1 | 7 | 177 |
| Females | 54 | 53 | 71 | 62 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 42 |
| Under 25 | 37 | 19 | 46 | 40 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 24 |
| 25-34 | 100 | 59 | 114 | 104 | 3 | 31 | 1 | 3 | 79 |
| 35-44 | 86 | 66 | 106 | 93 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 75 |
| 45-54 | 36 | 32 | 51 | 45 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 36 |
| 55 and over | 10 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Males | |||||||||
| Under 25 | 29 | 14 | 36 | 31 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 21 |
| 25-34 | 83 | 39 | 94 | 87 | 3 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 64 |
| 35-44 | 72 | 51 | 85 | 74 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 63 |
| 45-54 | 25 | 21 | 34 | 31 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 26 |
| 55 and over | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Females | |||||||||
| Under 25 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| 35-44 | 14 | 15 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 45-54 | 11 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 55 and over | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
1. More than one drug may be reported per death. These are mentions of each drug, and should not be added to give total deaths.
Part (a) counts only drugs which, the pathologist believed, were implicated in, or potentially contributed to, the cause of death
Part (b) counts all the drugs which the pathologist found to be present in the body, including those which the
pathologist did not consider to have had any direct contribution to the death
2. Please go to paragraph 3.3.1 of commentary.