28: Low life expectancy in the north east, and what to do about it – with Alice Wiseman and Professor Clare Bambra
The Health Foundation podcast
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Are Drug Related Deaths the Leading Cause of Inequality in Life Expectancy?
In Gateshead, we're reviewing our drug related death for last year 2022. polydrug use is really prevalent in those deaths. But it is really hard to know whether some of the deaths have an element of intent. We're also seeing a significantly higher level of deaths related to alcohol. And if I look at the deaths from drug abuse in the northeast, we are almost double the national average. So it's all very worrying.
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