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Drug use

This section includes statistical tables and graphs derived from a wide range of sources, including the National Drug Strategy Household Survey.

Further information

Charts/fact sheets

• Reason for not buying drugs 
• Drug use and crime 

Publications and data sources - Australia

• Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2005-06: report on the National Minimum Data Set
  Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• Drug statistics: index
  Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2007
• Australian secondary school students' surveys (National Drug Strategy monographs)
  National Drug Strategy
• Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS)
  National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
• Australian drug trends
  National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS)
• Australian trends in ecstasy and related drugs markets
  National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS)
• Illicit drug use, sources of Australian data, 2001
  Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2001. Reports on a range of national data sources, covering prevalence and patterns of use, law and order, health, family and community issues and economics.
• Drug-induced deaths, 1991-2001
  Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2003
• Interactive alcohol and other drug treatment services data
  Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• National Drug Strategy Household Survey
  Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• Statistics on drug use in Australia
  Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Publications and data sources - other countries and international

• Annual reports
  International Narcotics Control Board
• Annual reports on the state of the drugs problem in the European Union and Norway
  European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
• Drug offences
  UK Home Office. Crime statistics for England and Wales
• Global illicit drug trends
  United Nations International Drug Control Programme, annual reports
• Statistics on drugs and crime
  US Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Substance abuse statistics
  Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
• World drug reports
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime