Bibliography: Prevalence

This briefing paper looks at drug crime prevalence in England and Wales and the criminal justice outcomes for those found guilty of drug offences. It also covers the impacts of drug misuse (UK Parliament)

A National Statistics publication for Scotland

Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales from 1993 to 2019, by cause of death, sex, age and substances involved in the death (Office for National Statistics)

This Data Brief provides additional information on drug overdose deaths involving cocaine by examining trends in rates by sex, age group, race and Hispanic origin, and by concurrent involvement of opioids from 2009 through 2018 (CDC)

An overview of the results so far (Society for the Study of Addiction)

Initial results from the 2019 Young Persons Behaviour and Attitudes Survey (Department of Health (Northern Ireland) )

Key Findings on Adolescent Drug Use – 2019

Australia’s Annual Overdose Report 2020 reveals that for the fifth year running, more than 2,000 Australians lost their lives to overdose in a single calendar year (Penington Institute)

Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019 (CDC)

Building on the national surveys of image and performance enhancing drug use undertaken in both 2015 and 2016, a qualitative research project was undertaken in Wales to explore the barriers and facilitators to health care access amongst people using anabolicandrogenic steroids (AAS) and other image and performance enhancing drugs (Public Health Wales)

This data visualization presents provisional counts for drug overdose deaths based on a current flow of mortality data in the National Vital Statistics System (CDC)

While the magnitude of the effort needed to protect young people from serious violence cannot be underestimated, we believe there is cause for cautious optimism (YVC)