Bibliography: Prevalence

This report explores how data on drug use are captured through surveys of targeted populations in recreational settings (EMCDDA)

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

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

This report explores how data on drug use are captured through surveys of targeted populations in recreational settings. The benefits and challenges of monitoring drug use in recreational settings are identified, as are emergent data sources and methodological innovations (EMCDDA)

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

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

The National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program provides leading-edge, coordinated national research and intelligence on illicit drugs and licit drugs that can be abused, with a specific focus on methylamphetamine and other substances (Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission)

This year, we have provided a suite of products with the most up-to-date findings from interviews conducted annually from 2000-2018 with a cross-sectional sentinel group of people who regularly inject drugs recruited from all capital cities of Australia (IDRIS, NDARC)

Useof cocaine and higher purity forms of ecstasy and methamphetamine is increasing among samples of people who use drugs, according to the 2018 Drug Trends Reports from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC)

The main risk factor for transmission of bloodborne viruses (BBVs) in drug users in Ireland is injecting opioids, particularly heroin (HPSC)

The area under coca cultivation in Colombia reached the highest ever recorded figure of 171,000 hectares (ha) in 2017, according to UNODC’s Coca Cultivation Survey Report for Colombia, launched in Bogota today. This represents an increase of 25,000 hectares, or 17 per cent in 2017 compared to 2016 – Executive Summary (UNODC)

Prescription Drugs Results (NACD)

Polydrug and New Psychoactive Substances Results (NACD)

Report on non-fatal overdose monitoring data collected from the unlinked anonymous monitoring survey of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C in people who inject drugs (Public Health England)

Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of substance use and related factors among U.S. adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 55

National survey results on drug use, 1975–2017

National survey results on drug use, 1975–2017

Each year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) makes available to Drug Trends in-depth data on drug-induced deaths in Australia. This year, we have produced a suite of products to summarise trends in opioid-, amphetamine-, and cocaine-induced deaths in Australia from 1997 to 2016 (NDARC)

The continued growth in overdose deaths is linked to highly potent drugs, many of which are available through prescription, such as pharmaceutical opioids and benzodiazepines. Illegal drugs such as heroin and crystal methamphetamine (‘ice’) also contribute to a significant number of fatalities (Penington Institute)

Each year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) makes available to Drug Trends in-depth data on drug-induced deaths in Australia. This year, we have produced a suite of products to summarise trends in opioid-, amphetamine-, and cocaine-induced deaths in Australia from 1997 to 2016 (NDARC)

This report summarizes all unintentional illicit drug overdose deaths in British Columbia (accidental and undetermined) that occurred between January 1, 2008, and July 31, 2018, inclusive. It includes confirmed and suspected illicit overdose deaths (Coroners Service  British Columbia)

The number of pregnant women with opioid use disorder (OUD) at labor and delivery more than quadrupled from 1999 to 2014, according to a new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

STASH reviews a study by Beth Han and colleagues that examines national trends in youth substance use between 2002 and 2014

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

Investigating deaths related to drug misuse in 2014 and 2015 using coroners’ records (Office for National Statistics)

Statistics of drug-related deaths in 2017 and earlier years, broken down by cause of death, selected drugs reported, age and sex (National Records of Scotland)

Drug-related deaths have increased significantly in Scotland in recent years. Although men still account for the majority of cases, over the last 10 years the percentage increase in deaths among women has been much greater than among men (Scottish Government)