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drinking was lower (18%) compared with England (22%), although the percentage
drinking within the recommended weekly limits and binge drinking was marginally higher
(11%) compared to England (9%).
As part of the 2009 Social Capital Survey, survey respondents who reported that they
drank alcohol were asked to state what they thought the current recommended daily and
weekly alcohol unit limits were. Those aged 16-24 had less awareness or knowledge of
national daily and weekly alcohol unit recommendations and as age increases this
awareness generally improved.
The 2008-09 Young People Health and Lifestyle Survey estimated a higher percentage
of both boys and girls in Hull who had drunk alcohol than boys and girls in England as a
whole, with the possible exception of boys aged 15 years. Higher percentages of girls
than boys had ever drunk alcohol in Hull from the age of 13 years onwards, whereas in
England it was from the age of 14 years. A small percentage (4%) of young people had
exceeded the weekly units of alcohol which apply to adults, with 10% drinking alcohol
every week.
Drug and Substance Misuse: The estimated number of problematic drug users in
treatment in Hull between April 2008 and March 2009 was 2,052, and the figure for all
drug users (including problematic drug users) was 2,131. The all age directly
standardised mortality rate for substance abuse for 2007-2009 was 7.7 deaths for men
and 2.5 deaths for women per 100,000 residents, with higher rates in West Locality
because it includes the city centre and relatively cheap accommodation and housing,
and more supported housing.
Around 1 in 10 pupils reported they had been offered or encouraged to try drugs in the
last three months, ranging from 4-5% for year 7 and 8 children (aged 11-13 years) to
19% for year 11 (aged 15-16 years). The drug that pupils most commonly reported they
were offered or encouraged to try was cannabis. Only a very small number of pupils in
years 7 and 8 reported ever using drugs. Among the older year groups, the
percentages increased with school year, and were higher in girls than boys for each
year group. By year 11, 22% of girls and 18% of boys reported that they had used or
tried drugs.
Prevalence of Multiple Risk Factors: The 2007 Attitudes to Health Survey highlighted
an association between risk factors in particular a relationship between alcohol and
smoking, and between lack of exercise, diet and obesity. For all of these risk factors,
gender, age and deprivation are confounders. The prevalence of the combination of five
risk factors was examined from Hull‟s adult Health and Lifestyle Survey 2007. The risk
factors considered were smoking, alcohol, exercise, obesity and 5-A-DAY. In Hull, 2%
of men had all five of these risk factors, 13% had four, 31% had three, 35% had two,
16% had one and 4% had none of these five risk factors. Overall 0.6% of women had
all five risk factors, and women tend to have less multiple risk factors compared to men
but with a similar pattern across the age groups.
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