ONS figures released on Wednesday (February 5) show that 34 people died in Havering in 2023 as a direct consequence of alcohol.
Both 2022 and 2023 saw this number, which is also the highest amount of alcohol-specific deaths since the data was first recorded in 2001.
The numbers have more than tripled over five years, with only eight alcohol-specific deaths in 2018 and 12 in 2019.
Other east London boroughs had equally high numbers in the latest data: Newham recorded 36, Waltham Forest recorded 33 and Redbridge recorded 26.
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Havering also had the ninth highest numbers in London as a whole.
Across the UK, more than 10,400 deaths were caused by diseases known to be a direct consequence of alcohol in 2023 – the highest on record.
Drinkaware chief executive Karen Tyrell called these numbers “depressing”.
She said: “All of these deaths are preventable and sadly, according to our research, you are more likely to die from an alcohol specific illness if you live in the most deprived areas of the nation.”
