Bibliography: Prevalence

The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) is a national illicit drug monitoring system intended to identify emerging trends of local and national concern in illicit drug markets, and forms part of Drug Trends. (NDARC)

Data tables and commentary for the unlinked anonymous monitoring surveys of infections and risk among people who inject drugs (Public Health England)

Number of drug-related and drug-misuse deaths in Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency)

An analysis of law enforcement seizures of illegal drugs in five key regions of the United States revealed a rise in methamphetamine and marijuana (cannabis) confiscations during the COVID-19 pandemic (NIDA)

This release by Public Health Scotland presents the information available from the Scottish Drug Misuse Database (SDMD) on people presenting for initial assessment at specialist drug treatment services in 2019/20

This protocol documents a new approach that has been developed to monitor substances injected by people who inject drugs through analytically confirmed data at the local level: the analysis of residual content of used syringes (EMCDDA)

This report presents new findings from the ESCAPE (European Syringe Collection and Analysis Project Enterprise) network, based on the chemical analysis of the contents of used syringes across sentinel sites in Europe (EMCDDA)

Almost a third of 17-year-olds have tried cannabis and one in 10 have tried harder drugs, such as cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine, with similar rates of experimentation regardless of parents’ education level, finds a new UCL study

A report overviewing the key findings in 2020
An infographic summarising key findings in 2020

Quarterly update of class A, B and C drug seizure incidents and arrests by Police Service of Northern Ireland

This report presents newly published information on hospital admissions attributable to drug-related mental health and behavioural disorders and on hospital admissions attributable to poisoning by illicit drugs (NHS)

In 2020, we have provided a suite of products with the most up-to-date findings from interviews conducted annually from 2003-2020 with a cross-sectional sentinel group of people who regularly use ecstasy and other stimulants recruited from Perth, Western Australia (EDRS)

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

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

Drug Related Deaths in Scotland

Experimental Statistics of the number of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales. Figures are given for deaths registered in the years 2013 to 2019 (ONS)

An overview of the extent and trends of illicit drug use for the year ending March 2020. Data are from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (ONS)

Our State of Child Health report showed that in some parts of the country, the number of young people reporting using drugs like cannabis was declining, while in other areas that number was rising (RCPCH)

Research involved case study methodology, exploring factors associated with substance use in 5 English prisons (Ministry of Justice)

Six-monthly update of class A, B and C drug seizure incidents and arrests by PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency)

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)