questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of (a) the accuracy of officially reported numbers of opioid related deaths and (b) the potential implications for his policies.
answerText: The Department is aware of several limitations that apply to drug-related death statistics. These include the limitation that figures reported for specific substances are undercounts as it is not always possible to determine which drugs were involved from...
heading: Opioids: Death