Bibliography: Prevalence

This report provides an update on infectious diseases related to injecting drug use in Europe for the period up to June 2015 (EMCDDA)

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

This report examines the prevalence of regular use of 2 or more substances among adolescents in Scotland, and key factors associated with multiple substance use (Scottish Government)

There were 3,346 drug poisoning deaths registered in England and Wales in 2014, the highest since comparable records began in 1993 (Office for National Statistics )

Quarterly data are published on StatWales. These include data on quarterly activity, case closures by reason for closure and the time between referral and start of treatment (Welsh Government)

In 2015, NCPIC conducted an online survey about experiences and perceptions of ice. This survey report includes responses from 11, 636 participants (NCPP)

The briefing is therefore designed to provide local authority commissioners and drug treatment providers with further insight on the current situation and recent trends in relation to drug misuse deaths (Public Health England)

National Ice Taskforce present its interim report to the Council of Australian Governments meeting in Sydney (Australian Government)

This report contains results from an annual survey of secondary school pupils in England in years 7 to 11 (mostly aged 11 to 15). 6,173 pupils in 210 schools completed questionnaires in the autumn term of 2014 (HSCIC)

This document summarises key findings from the second year of the SIEDs survey, with a particular focus of the report being on the specific drugs of use (CPH)

This report examines recent trends in alcohol consumption in Australia across three measures: rates of abstention, rates of episodic heavy drinking and the distribution of drinking across the population (FARE)

The survey forms the basis of Australia’s human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C surveillance among injecting drug users, and monitors behavioural indices of risk in addition to prevalence of infection (Kirby Institute)

Results indicate that current drug injection, including its incidence, has declined in recent years in Europe. While heroin remains the drug most frequently involved in drug injection, data show how drug injectors are now more likely to be using stimulants than in the past (EMCDDA)

This report presents an immediate opportunity to enhance youth drug use prevention and intervention programs, as well as emerging policy frameworks, with factual information and in a fashion that has been shown to work (CCSA)

The report presents national and jurisdictional data from the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey from 1995 to 2014. Around two thirds of Australia’s primary Needle and Syringe Program services participate in the survey and program attendees have participated on more than 45,000 occasions (The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia)

United States, January–May 2015 (CDC)

HSE-Health Protection Surveillance Centre

An interactive webmap that allows users to map tobacco and alcohol outlet density, and related health outcomes, for neighbourhoods (‘datazones‘) across Scotland (CRESH)

As we describe below, available evidence shows that the misuse of benzodiazepines contributes to morbidity and mortality among high-risk opioid users (EMCDDA)

European multi-city study (EMCDDA)

What did we learn from GDS2015? An overview of our key findings Dr Adam R Winstock, Founder Director GDS

Deaths involving methamphetamine have been steadily increasing since 2010 and its use among injecting drug users has increased by 50 per cent over the past 10 years, according to research from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at UNSW

The demand for synthetic drugs in East and South-East Asia and Oceania continues to rise, while rapid economic integration is creating new opportunities for transnational criminal groups to expand the illicit drug trade, warned UNODC in a new report recently released under the Global Synthetics Monitoring: Analyses, Reporting and Trends (SMART) Programme (UNODC)

Trends and Patterns of Amphetamine-type Stimulants and New Psychoactive Substances (UNODC)

The Illicit Drug Data Report 2013–14 provides governments, law enforcement agencies, policy makers, academia, interested stakeholders and the community with a robust statistical picture of the Australian illicit drug market (Australian Crime Commission)

Tobacco and alcohol use are by far the most prevalent addictive behaviours and cause the large majority of the harm. However, the quality of data on prevalence and addiction-related harms is mostly low, and comparisons between countries and regions must be viewed with caution (Addiction)