Addiction

The rate of overdose deaths among US teenagers nearly doubled in 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, and rose another 20% in the first half of 2021 compared with the ten years before the pandemic – even as drug use remained generally stable during the same period, according to new UCLA research.

Rough sleepers will be provided with safe and warm accommodation this winter through an extra £66m of funding from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).