Aims: Statistics on drug-related deaths (DRD) provide crucial information on the drug situation. The European Monitoring Centre for Drug and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has published a specification for extracting DRD from national mortality registers to be used in international comparisons. However, ...
Recommended statistics European overview UK overview Hospital admissions and treatment for drug misuse Drug use among children Drug related deaths Drug offencesKey insights Share of adults in England and Wales who have used cocaine as of 2022/23 Share of adults in England and Wales who have used...
Recommended statistics Drug use in Europe Prevalence of drug use, by country Drug administration Drug-related deaths Treatment for drug abuseKey insights Prevalence of illegal drug use among the global population Addicts of illegal drugs worldwide Low estimate of world's population using cannabis ...
Are deaths due to drug use among young men underestimated in official statistics? Drugs, education, prevention and policy - Stanistreet, Gabbay, et al. - 2004 () Citation Context ...death rather than suicide. Whilst coroners determined drugs to be related to death in 90 cases, the figure ...
Data presented in this report are drawn from the Cause of Death Unit Record File (COD URF) collated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS undertakes a revision process for coroner-certified deaths over a three-year period. Accordingly, data for 2020 and 2021 are preliminary ...
The accuracy of statistics on drug-related deaths depends on numerous processes at work from the investigation of the death-scene to the categorization of the case in official statistics. This article discusses problems in lack of information, pressures on medical examiners, definition, nomenclature, ...
Most drug-related deaths claimed the lives of men (2,572), whereas 1,172 women died as a result of drugs. In its report, ONS said almost 12 percent of men aged 16 to 59 years had taken an illegal drug in the last year, compared with five percent of women, partly explaining the hi...
The latest figures on drug-related deaths and deaths among drug users in Ireland, up to 2012, have been published.1 聽The number of deaths has decreased slightly from 645 in 2011 to 633 in 2012. Of the total number of deaths in 2012, 350 people died as a result of poisoning (i...
Drug Number of Deaths 2013 1 Tobacco 480,000 + deaths 2 Alcohol 26,654 deaths 3 Perscrpition Painkillers 16,235 deaths 4 Heroin 8,257 deaths 5 Cocaine 5,100 deathsShare on Social Media:Tags: Death Statistics, Health Statistics, Tobacco & Smoking Statistics, Drug & Alcohol Statistics, ...
Porter JJick H Drug-related deaths among medical inpatients. JAMA. 1977;237879- 881ArticleGoogle ScholarCrossref 7. Kohn LCorrigan JMDonaldson MS To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, DC National Academy Press1999; 8. Avorn J Putting adverse drug events into perspective...