Bibliography: Prevalence

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)

This document presents a summary of academic research papers on illegal drugs (CESED, Colombia)

This briefing provides a snapshot of the state of play with respect to the impact of COVID-19 on drug consumption patterns and drug-related harms during the early stages of the pandemic (EMCDDA)

This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) provides a follow-up to previously published estimates of the prevalence of Problem Drug Use (PDU) in Scotland between April 2015 and March 2016

Latest PHE hepatitis C virus (HCV) reports and supporting documents, for England and the UK

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

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)

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

(Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency)

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)

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

This report advises government on the number and nature of known fentanyl analogues, risk factors, pharmacology, toxic effects and misuse and associated harms (ACMD)

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)

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

Key Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) Interviews (NDARC)