Written question asked by Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 27 October 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 29 October 2009. It was answered by Phil Hope (Labour) on Monday, 2 November 2009 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Drugs: Misuse

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance use were recorded in England in each of the last five years.

Answer

The information is shown in the following table:

Activity in English national health service hospitals and English national health service commissioned activity in the independent sector, data years 2004-05 to 2008-09
	Finished admission episodes
2004-05	44,367
2005-06	47,854
2006-07	47,886
2007-08	48,583
2008-09	48,970
Note: These figures include admissions for alcohol-induced mental health conditions. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care.

Secondary information