Alcohol dependency drugs: 60 per cent rise in prescription items in eight years

Report also shows rise in hospital admissions attributable to alcohol*Regional information to SHA level available from this report* The number of prescription items dispensed annually to treat alcohol dependency in England has risen by more than 60 per cent in eight years, a new report shows today. Nearly 167,800 items were dispensed in the community in 2011 according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). This is a rise of nearly five per cent on the previous year (160,200) and of 63 per cent on 2003 (102,700); the first year of time series data included in the