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Latest data update

26 April 2023
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Impacts of COVID-19

Purchase and consumption of alcohol

Report 18 of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, Australian Crime Intelligence Commission

Data by region

Drug-induced deaths

AIHW analysis of the National Mortality Database

Harm minimisation

Supply reduction: Wastewater analysis

Report 18 of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, Australian Crime Intelligence Commission

Harm reduction: Minimising risky behaviours

CanTEST Health and Drug Checking Service Program Evaluation: Interim Report. Australian National University.

Impacts

Health impacts

AIHW analysis of the National Mortality Database

Social Impacts: Victimisation, Homicide

ABS Crime Victimisation

Homicide in Australia 2020–21

Drug types

Tobacco: Consumption, treatment

Report 18 of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, Australian Crime Intelligence Commission

AIHW 2021-22 Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services Early Insights report

Alcohol: Consumption, harms, treatment

AIHW analysis of the National Mortality Database

AIHW Alcohol-related injury: hospitalisations and deaths, 2019-20

AIHW 2021-22 Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services Early Insights report

Cannabis: Availability, consumption, treatment

AIHW analysis of the National Mortality Database

Report 18 of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, Australian Crime Intelligence Commission

AIHW 2021-22 Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services Early Insights report

Meth/amphetamine: Consumption, harms, treatment

AIHW analysis of the National Mortality Database

Report 18 of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, Australian Crime Intelligence Commission

AIHW 2021-22 Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services Early Insights report

Pharmaceuticals: Consumption, harms, treatment

AIHW analysis of the National Mortality Database

Report 18 of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, Australian Crime Intelligence Commission

AIHW 2021-22 Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services Early Insights report

Illicit opioids including heroin: Consumption, harms, treatment

AIHW analysis of the National Mortality Database

Report 18 of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, Australian Crime Intelligence Commission

AIHW 2021-22 Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services Early Insights report

AIHW National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data collection

New (and emerging) psychoactive substances: Consumption

Report 18 of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, Australian Crime Intelligence Commission

 

Priority populations

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: Treatment

AIHW2021-22 Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services Early Insights report

AIHW National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data collection

Older people: Health and harms, treatment

AIHW analysis of the National Mortality Database

AIHW 2021-22 Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services Early Insights report

AIHW National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data collection

People in contact with the criminal justice system: Police, courts, corrective services, and young people under youth justice supervision

ABS Recorded Crime - Offenders

ABS Prisoners in Australia

AIHW Youth Justice

Younger people: Health and harms, treatment

AIHW analysis of the National Mortality Database

AIHW 2021-22 Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services Early Insights report