Release supports the National AIDS Trust’s submission to create a new sub-indicator within the Public Health Outcomes Framework to record and monitor drug-related deaths in the United Kingdom.
This sub-indicator is desperately needed to adequately evaluate the successful completion of drug treatment and the extent to which it constitutes a successful intervention that prevents serious harms and overdose deaths by people who used drugs problematically. It is a fundamental duty of government both national and local to preserve the health of its citizens and the extent to which this is being implemented with regards to the United Kingdom’s population of vulnerable drug users must be recorded.