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This is a list of countries (and some territories) by the annual prevalence of opiates use as percentage of the population aged 15–64 (unless otherwise indicated).. The primary source of information are the World Drug Report 2011 (WDR 2011) and the World Drug Report 2006 (WDR 2006), [1] [2] published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of deaths. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.
While prohibited drugs are generally viewed as being the most dangerous, the misuse of prescription drugs is linked to more deaths in several countries. [12] [16] Cocaine and heroin combined caused fewer deaths than prescriptions drugs in the United Kingdom in 2013, [17] [18] and fewer deaths than prescription opiates alone in the United States ...
Category: Drug-related deaths by country. 3 languages. ... Drug-related deaths in the United Kingdom (6 C, 2 P) Drug-related deaths in the United States (6 C, 8 P)
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As heroin use rose, so did overdose deaths. The statistics are overwhelming. In a study released this past fall examining 28 states, the CDC found that heroin deaths doubled between 2010 and 2012. The CDC reported recently that heroin-related overdose deaths jumped 39 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2013, surging to 8,257.
Heroin and methadone hospitalisations were much lower, increasing from 2.6 to 6.9 per 100,000, with all of the increase due to methadone use rather than heroin. Opioid-related deaths, including drugs of abuse, rose from 1.3 to 3.2 per 1,000,000 population (+146%, 2000–2015).
Alcohol consumption contributed to 2.6 million deaths worldwide annually, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization, with psychoactive drug use responsible for another 0.6 ...