Assessing the impact of funding cuts to local housing services on drug and alcohol related mortality: a longitudinal study using area-level data in England

• Compiled data on local service expenditure and funding in England can be found in the Place Based Longitudinal Data Resource (https://pldr.org/), maintained by the authors.
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