Drug-related deaths and mortality in Europe: update from the EMCDDA expert network

Lisbon May 2021

Series type: Meeting reports and conference proceedings

Summary

This report provides an update on drug-related deaths in Europe based primarily on presentations and discussions held at the 2019 meeting of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) expert network on drug-related deaths. The meeting brought together experts and representatives from over 40 countries and provided a platform for discussing new trends in and analyses of drug-induced deaths in Europe and beyond and responses to them.

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Table of contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction to and aim of this report
  • Overdose deaths in Europe: an overview
    • Demographic characteristics of drug-related fatalities in Europe
    • Heroin-related deaths in selected European countries
    • Cocaine-related deaths in selected European countries
  • Special focus: a European overview of deaths related to new psychoactive substances
    • Fentanyl and fentanyl analogues
    • Etizolam: concern around new benzodiazepines in Scotland
  • Responding to drug-related deaths
    • Drug consumption rooms
    • Take-home naloxone programmes
  • References
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Pub. Author: 
EMCDDA
Pages: 
33
ISBN: 
978-92-9497-605-5
Pub. DOI: 
10.2810/777564
Catalog Number: 
TD0221591ENN

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Main subject

drug-related deaths

Keywords

benzodiazepines
cocaine
DRD (key indicator)
drug consumption facility
drug-related deaths
fentanils
heroin
naloxone
overdose
partners and cooperation

Target audience

EMCDDA partners
researcher

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