Internal Reference Number: FOI_7904
Date Request Received: 23/04/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 10/05/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Hospital Admissions due to Psychedelics Consumption
Request Category: Private Individuals
Question Number 1: How many times ‘microdosing’ psychedelic substances was included as a reason for hospital admissions in your trust in 2022, 2023 and 2024 to date. Such substances include but are not limited to: -Magic Mushrooms (e.g. Psilocybin) -MDMA -LSD -DMT -Ayahuasca (e.g. Harmaline) -Salvia Please break this down by drug, year and patient age. | |
Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to this FOI in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note, we have not been able to answer based on specific codes for psychedelic substances but have searched based on codes for any recreational drugs. See codes searched for below: T40 Poisoning by narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens] T40.0 Opium T40.1 Heroin T40.2 Other opioids Codeine Morphine T40.3 Methadone T40.4 Other synthetic narcotics Pethidine T40.5 Cocaine T40.6 Other and unspecified narcotics T40.7 Cannabis (derivatives) T40.8 Lysergide [LSD] T40.9 Other and unspecified psychodysleptics [hallucinogens] Mescaline Psilocin Psilocybine F16 Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of hallucinogens To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below: FOI_7904 - Hospital Admissions due to Psychedelics Consumption response Q1 & Q2.xlsx | |
Question Number 2: How many times the consumption of psychedelic substances in any quantity was included as a reason for hospital admissions in your trust in 2022, 2023 and 2024 to date. Such substances include but are not limited to: -Magic Mushrooms (e.g. Psilocybin) -MDMA -LSD -DMT -Ayahuasca (e.g. Harmaline) -Salvia Please break this down by drug, year and patient age | |
Answer To Question 2: Please see our response to this FOI in the Excel spreadsheet attached. | |
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