Trends in Overdose and Other Drug-Induced Deaths in Australia, 2002-2021

Key findings

This report presents the most recent and in-depth data on overdose and drug-induced deaths in Australia, covering the period 2002 to 2021. It is the most recent output in a series of annual publications on trends in drug overdose deaths issued by Drug Trends for over 20 years.

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Findings are reported by age, sex, jurisdiction, remoteness area, socio-economic status, intent, psychosocial risk factors, and drug type.

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Jurisdictional summary reports

Detailed analyses of deaths by jurisdiction (including by sex, age, intent, remoteness area, drug type and place of occurrence) are available at the end of this report.

For a summary of findings on trends in overdose and other drug-induced deaths for each jurisdiction, please see the full report or go to the jurisdictional summary reports:

Recommended citation

Chrzanowska A, Man N, Akhurst J, Sutherland R, Degenhardt L, Peacock A. Trends in overdose and other drug-induced deaths in Australia, 2002-2021. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, ̽��ϵ�� Sydney; 2023. Available from:

Data source

We acknowledge all state and territory Registries of Births, Deaths and Marriages, the Coroners and the National Coronial Information System (NCIS) for enabling Cause of Death Unit Record File (COD URF) data to be used for this publication.

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The Drug Trends program is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care under the Drug and Alcohol Program.

Copyright

Please note that any representation of these data should include an acknowledgment of Drug Trends at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales.

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Date published

7 Dec 2023

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