Bibliography: Prevalence

This report explores how data on drug use are captured through surveys of targeted populations in recreational settings (EMCDDA)

Annual report on the Home Office forensic early warning system, which identifies new psychoactive substances in the UK (Home Office)

This Public Health England report describes the extent of infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United Kingdom (PHE)

This report explores how data on drug use are captured through surveys of targeted populations in recreational settings. The benefits and challenges of monitoring drug use in recreational settings are identified, as are emergent data sources and methodological innovations (EMCDDA)

Contains figures for seizures of drugs made by local police forces and the UK Border Force (Home Office)

Key Findings from the National Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) Interviews (NDARC)

The National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program provides leading-edge, coordinated national research and intelligence on illicit drugs and licit drugs that can be abused, with a specific focus on methylamphetamine and other substances (Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission)

This year, we have provided a suite of products with the most up-to-date findings from interviews conducted annually from 2000-2018 with a cross-sectional sentinel group of people who regularly inject drugs recruited from all capital cities of Australia (IDRIS, NDARC)

Useof cocaine and higher purity forms of ecstasy and methamphetamine is increasing among samples of people who use drugs, according to the 2018 Drug Trends Reports from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC)

The main risk factor for transmission of bloodborne viruses (BBVs) in drug users in Ireland is injecting opioids, particularly heroin (HPSC)

The area under coca cultivation in Colombia reached the highest ever recorded figure of 171,000 hectares (ha) in 2017, according to UNODC’s Coca Cultivation Survey Report for Colombia, launched in Bogota today. This represents an increase of 25,000 hectares, or 17 per cent in 2017 compared to 2016 – Executive Summary (UNODC)

Prescription Drugs Results (NACD)

Polydrug and New Psychoactive Substances Results (NACD)

Report on non-fatal overdose monitoring data collected from the unlinked anonymous monitoring survey of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C in people who inject drugs (Public Health England)

Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of substance use and related factors among U.S. adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 55