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Table 1 Three-year average (2020-22) age-standardised mortality rates from drug, suicide, and alcohol-specific mortality per 100,000 population. All data from ONS [16, 17, 30]

From: “They pulled that funding away and we’re not recovering. it’s getting worse”: deaths of despair in post-austerity north east England

 

Middlesbrough

South Tyneside

North East

England

Suicide

16.5

8.9

13.5

10.3

Drug Misuse

Deaths

14.1

10.9

9.7

5.2

Alcohol-Specific Mortality

26.3

28.3

21.8

14.5