This Learning Lessons Bulletin examines deaths of prisoners where the use of ‘NPS’ type drugs was suspected (Prison and Probation Ombudsman, UK)
Bibliography: Prevalence
Australian NSP Survey Data Reports
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)
World Drug Report 2015
UNODC
Drugs policy and the city in Europe
Illicit drug problems and responses and the different forms they can take in the city environment are explored in this paper. It addresses four areas: urban spaces and drug use, responses to city-level drug problems, city-level drugs strategies, and the coordination and funding of city-level policies (EMCDDA)
Estimating trends in injecting drug use in Europe using national data on drug treatment admissions
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)
National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2015
Drugs on page 23 (National Crime Agency)
Preliminary results of the IDHDP global naloxone survey
Slideshare of conference presentation (IDHDP)
The Effects of Cannabis Use during Adolescence
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)
20 year report on Needle and Syringe Program attendees in Australia
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)
Increase in Reported Adverse Health Effects Related to Synthetic Cannabinoid Use
United States, January–May 2015 (CDC)
HIV in Ireland – 2014 Report
HSE-Health Protection Surveillance Centre
Empowering communities: an interactive tobacco and alcohol outlet density webmap for Scotland
An interactive webmap that allows users to map tobacco and alcohol outlet density, and related health outcomes, for neighbourhoods (‘datazones‘) across Scotland (CRESH)
The misuse of benzodiazepines among high-risk opioid users in Europe
As we describe below, available evidence shows that the misuse of benzodiazepines contributes to morbidity and mortality among high-risk opioid users (EMCDDA)
Wastewater analysis and drugs
European multi-city study (EMCDDA)
The Global Drug Survey 2015 findings
What did we learn from GDS2015? An overview of our key findings Dr Adam R Winstock, Founder Director GDS
Methamphetamine deaths increase across Australia and ice use jumps by 52 per cent among people who inject drugs
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
Expanding synthetic drugs market inhibiting development in East and South-East Asia and Oceania
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)
The Challenge of Synthetic Drugs in East and South-East Asia and Oceania
Trends and Patterns of Amphetamine-type Stimulants and New Psychoactive Substances (UNODC)
2013-14 Illicit Drug Data Report
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)
Global statistics on addictive behaviours: 2014 status report
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)
