Crime and criminal justice statistics
Drug use
This section includes statistical tables and graphs derived from a wide range of sources, including the National Drug Strategy Household Survey.
Use of selected illicit drugs in the past 12 months, 1991-2004, percentage
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology 2006. Trends in illicit drug use in Australia. Crime facts info no. 121, 26 Apr. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/cfi/cfi121.html
Further information
Charts/fact sheets
- Reason for not buying drugs
- Drug use and crime
- Drug use among police detainees/offenders
- Selected crime profiles : drug arrests (Chapter 2 from Australian crime : facts and figures 2006)
- From the National Drug Strategy Household Survey, 2004:
- Price statistics
- Drug use by young serious offenders
- Mental health and drug dependency amongst police detainees
- Adult police detainees who tested positive to methylamphetamine, 2000-2004, per cent
- Sequence of drug use among male and female offenders
- Lifetime prevalence and current regular use of illegal drugs (per cent), DUCO females
- DUMA drug market characteristics
- Lifetime prevalence and current regular use of illegal drugs (per cent), DUCO males
- Percentage of adult detainees previously arrested, in prison or neither arrested or in prison
- Heroin use in the ACT falls
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
Related links
- Statistics: Drug use among offenders/detainees; Drug offences
- Topic: Illicit drugs and alcohol