Reports: May |
Estimates of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Heroin, and Oxycodone: United States, 2021 (PDF)
From 2016 through 2021, age-adjusted drug overdose death rates involving fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine increased, while drug overdose death rates involving oxycodone decreased | CDC, USA
Five drug-induced deaths per day in Australia in 2021: new report
A new report sheds light on trends in overdose and other drug-induced deaths in Australia and identifies steps to avoid some deaths | NDARC, Australia
Deaths among people who were homeless at time of death in Ireland, 2019
This feasibility study was commissioned by the Department of Health to address the need to improve understanding of premature mortality among people who are homeless nationally, and to provide more complete and accurate national data to inform policy | Health Research Board, Ireland
The Role of Law Enforcement Officers in Drug Use Prevention within School Settings (PDF)
This guiding document primarily aims to improve the effectiveness of pre-existing and ongoing work of Law Enforcement Officers (LEO) involved in substance use prevention in schools. Its intentions are to incite LEO to re-assess their mode of operation and align their work with what the science of prevention suggests doing in such settings | UNODC, Switzerland
Alcohol treatment services (PDF)
For those in deepest need alcohol treatment services offer real hope. However, despite the alarming increase in alcohol-related deaths over the past twenty years and sharp rises since 2019, the number of people receiving treatment for alcohol dependency has generally been falling. A staggering 82% of the 600,000 dependent drinkers in England are not in treatment. This is despite success rates of around 60% and evidence that, on average, every £1 spent on treatment immediately delivers £3 of benefit and significantly more in the longer term | House of Commons, UK
2023 YouGov addendum to MUP cross-border report
This is an addendum to our 2022 report on the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) of alcohol in Scotland on cross-border purchasing. This paper describes updated data collected in March 2023 by putting survey questions about self-reported cross-border and online purchasing to a panel | Public Health Scotland, UK
Estimated numbers of people prescribed opioid substitution therapy in Scotland
In the 12 month period ending 31 December 2022 (the end of 2022/23 Q3), Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) was prescribed to an estimated minimum of 29,305 people in Scotland. In the 12 month period to the end of the previous financial year quarter (2022/23 Q2) an estimated minimum of 29,405 people were prescribed OST | Public Health Scotland, UK