This 2020 EMCDDA update on drug-related infectious diseases aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current situation with regard to the epidemiological picture of drug-related infectious diseases in Europe up to January 2020, while highlighting some of the current innovative responses to the problem
Bibliography: Prevalence
Adulterants, Contaminants and Co-occurring Substances in Drugs on the Illegal Market in Canada
Provides a snapshot of the contents of drugs on the illegal market in Canada using 2018–2019 data from drug seizures, drug checking services and a drug monitoring study. This bulletin is accompanied by a technical report featuring detailed research methods and data PDF (CCENDU )
Synthetic Drugs in East and Southeast Asia (PDF)
Latest developments and challenges (UNODC)
Novel benzodiazepines: prevalence and harms in the UK
This report examines the evidence of prevalence and harms in the UK of several novel benzodiazepines and provides advice to the government (ACMD)
Nonfatal Drug Overdoses Treated in Emergency Departments — United States, 2016–2017
From 2016 to 2017, the nonfatal overdose ED visits rates for all drugs, all opioids, nonheroin opioids, heroin, and cocaine increased significantly, whereas those for benzodiazepines decreased significantly (CDC)
Wastewater analysis and drugs — a European multi-city study (Perspectives on drugs)
The results provide a valuable snapshot of the drug flow through the cities involved, revealing marked geographical variations (EMCDDA)
National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program—Ninth report
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) has commissioned The University of Queensland, and through it the University of South Australia, to undertake the data collection and analysis that underpins the report
Review of drugs: phase one report
The first part of Dame Carol Black’s independent review of drugs (Home Office)
The Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug ‘Ice’
A list of report sections from NSW, Australia
Drug-Related and Drug-Misuse Deaths 2008-2018
(Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency)
Investigating the association between an offender’s sex and ethnicity and the sentence imposed at the Crown Court for drug offences (PDF)
The Sentencing Council has conducted analysis of sentencing data to consider the association between an offender’s sex and ethnicity and the sentence imposed at the Crown Court for supply, possession with intent to supply and conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of classes A and B. In 2018, these offences accounted for around 12 per cent of all adult offenders sentenced at the Crown Court (Sentencing Council)
Left Behind: The Scale of Illegal Cannabis Use for Medicinal Intent in the UK
In this study, we used a cross-sectional national survey weighted to all adult groups in England, Wales and Scotland to identify this prevalence, and also to scale the monetary and personal costs of use (Centre for Medicinal Cannabis)
Seizures of drugs in England and Wales, financial year ending 2019 second edition
Contains figures for seizures of drugs made by local police forces and the UK Border Force (Home Office)
Misuse of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues
This report advises government on the number and nature of known fentanyl analogues, risk factors, pharmacology, toxic effects and misuse and associated harms (ACMD)
Monitoring the Future
Since 1975 the MTF survey has measured drug and alcohol use and related attitudes among adolescent students nationwide. Survey participants report their drug use behaviors across three time periods: lifetime, past year, and past month (NIH)
Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK
This Public Health England report describes the extent of infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United Kingdom (Public Health England)
South Australia Drug Trends 2019
Key Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) Interviews (NDARC)
Opioids in the United States
The objective of this report is to provide timely information regarding the status of opioids including novel opioids and fentanyl analog prevalence, positivity, and discovery within the United States (NPS)
Trends in drug-related hospitalisations in Australia, 1999-2018
Each year, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) makes available to Drug Trends in-depth data on drug-related hospitalisations in Australia from the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NDARC)
New South Wales Drug Trends 2019: Key Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting system (IDRS) Interviews
The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) is an ongoing illicit drug monitoring system which has been conducted in all states and territories of Australia since 2000, and forms part of Drug Trends (NDARC)
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