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Mr. Alex Carlile
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in Wales are addicted to heroin and cocaine in each health authority area; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Mellor
In 1989 doctors in Wales notified persons addicted to heroin and concaine as follows:
| Number of persons | ||||
| Persons notified in 1989 as addicted to: | ||||
| District health authority | Heroin1 | Heroin and cocaine2 | Cocaine3 | Total |
| Clwyd | 69 | 1 | — | 70 |
| East Dyfed | 7 | — | — | 7 |
| Gwent | 39 | 7 | 1 | 47 |
| Gwynedd | 3 | — | — | 3 |
| Mid-Glamorgan | 10 | 2 | — | 12 |
| Pembrokeshire | — | — | — | — |
| Powys | 3 | — | — | 3 |
| South Glamorgan | 35 | 1 | 2 | 38 |
| West Glamorgan | 6 | — | 1 | 7 |
| All Wales | 172 | 11 | 4 | 187 |
| 1 Alone or with other drugs excluding cocaine. | ||||
| 2 Alone or with other drugs. | ||||
| 3 Alone or with other drugs excluding heroin. | ||||