2022-001233

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Date of request

30 March 2022

Date of response

26 April 2022

FOI request ID

2022-001233

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• Drugs

Request

Under the FOI (Scotland) Act 2002 please provide the number of 1) patients that were admitted to hospital 2) hospital stays in each year financial year between 2015/16 and 2021/22 associated with the consumption of benzodiazepines, broken down by:

(i) NHS board

(ii) Age groupings as provided in the PHS drug-related hospital admissions publication here

(iii) The number that were related to a) mental & behavioural diagnosis b) drug poisoning/overdose as also provided in the PHS publication.