Australia recorded the highest number of drug-induced deaths since the late 1990s, with the death rate steadily increasing over a decade and now at 7.5 deaths per 100,000 Australians (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Bibliography: Prevalence
Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States
Results from the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (SAMHSA)
Deaths by drug poisoning where any opiates were mentioned on the death certificate, local authorities in England and Wales, 1993 to 2016
Office for National Statistics UK – link to Excel file
Provisional Drug Overdose Deaths 2016 – 2017 (PDF)
These counts include all seasons of the year and are insensitive to reporting variations by seasonality. Deaths are reported by the jurisdiction in which the death occurred (CDC)
National Poisons Information Service Report 2016/17
National Poisons Information Service annual report with section on drugs of misuse (PDF)
Annual Surveillance Report of Drug-Related Risks and Outcomes (PDF)
The purpose of this first annual surveillance report is to summarize the latest information available on the national level for various health outcomes, health behaviors, and prescribing patterns related to the drug problem in the United States (CDC, USA)
Drug-related deaths in Scotland, 2016
Numbers of drug-deaths in Scotland by (e.g.) age, sex, Health Board and council areas, and whether particular drugs were in the body (National Records of Scotland)
Drug Related Deaths in Scotland
This describes a study that involved age-period-cohort analyses to investigate whether cohort effects from exposure to the changing political context from the 1980s could explain the recent trends in drug-related deaths in Scotland (OSF)
Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales: 2016 registrations
Latest update on deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales by cause of death, sex, age and substances involved in the death. A backseries of data from 1993 is also included in this publication (Office of National Statistics)
Unlinked anonymous HIV and viral hepatitis monitoring among PWID: 2017 report
This article presents an overview of the trends between 2006 and 2016 for HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and risk behaviours from the main Unlinked Anonymous Monitoring Survey, which is targeted at people who inject psychoactive drugs, such as heroin, crack cocaine and amphetamines (Public Health England)
Hepatitis C in England and the UK
Latest hepatitis C virus (HCV) reports, slide sets and infographics for England and the UK (Public Health England)
Drug misuse: findings from the 2016 to 2017 CSEW
Examines the extent and trends in illicit drug use among a sample of 16 to 59 year old residents in households in England and Wales (Home Office)
More Australians dying of accidental overdose of pharmaceutical opioids
The report analyses cause of death data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and found that in 2013, the last year for which finalised data is available, just under 600 (597) Australians between the ages of 15 and 54 died from accidental overdose of opioids with the majority 70 per cent being due to opioids other than heroin, including strong prescription painkillers (NDARC)
Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2017
Includes a section o drugs (Office of National Statistics)
The drugs situation in Ireland: an overview of trends from 2005 to 2015 (PDF)
This overview analyses ten years of data up to the most recent available with respect to the five European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) key indicators (prevalence of drug use, high risk drug use, treatment demand, drug-related deaths and mortality and drug-related infectious diseases) as well as drug-related crime and supply (Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University)
EMCDDA–Europol Joint Report on a new psychoactive substance: N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)piperidin-4-yl]-furan-2-carboxamide (furanylfentanyl)
The two organisations launched a data collection on this substance for the preparation of a Joint Report as stipulated by Article 5.1 of the Council Decision. The Joint Report was submitted to the Council, the Commission and the European Medicines Agency on 23 January 2017. Download
EMCDDA assessment of drug-induced death data and contextual information in selected countries
This report examines the triggers and dynamics of drug-related death in the seven EMCDDA Member States with the highest drug-related death (DRD) rates per population
A Performance Measurement Framework for Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (PDF)
The development of a Performance Measurement Framework for DATFs follows the review undertaken by the Department of Health in 20121 and adopts a similar logic to the Healthy Ireland strategy. Rather than looking at interventions in terms of inputs and outputs, the overriding concern is with the net effect of public policies at the population level. This is the only way of conceptualising effectiveness in an evidence-based and sustainable manner (Drugs and Alcohol Ireland)
Illicit Drug Data Report
Our Illicit Drug Data Report (IDDR) informs Australia’s understanding of the illicit drug threat (ACIC)
Older People with Drug Problems in Scotland: (PDF)
A Mixed Methods Study Exploring Health and Social Support Needs (Scottish Drugs Forum)
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