Notes:  

Where no data are available in the country, the table is left empty

(1) "Speedball" is included in the category "other substances" only for the years 2002-2003. From the 2nd semester of 1995 two main drug centres stopped participating in the data collection; one of those centres re-entered in 2001 and the other in 2002.  

(2) Data based on national census on drug addiction centres at national level in 1997, 1999; 2003.

(3) Partial comparability with TDI.

(4) Data include only substitution treatments.

(5) Coverage is comprehensive for the public outpatient drug treatment centres. Double counting of individuals amongst different primary sources may occur.

(6) 13 treatment units in prison are also covered from 2002, but data were not included for consistency with previous years.

(7) Number of units covered by the data collection increased from 66 in 1998 to 163 in 2003.

(8) Data before 2000 were available but they were not included because of a major change in the reporting system, which would have biased the comparisons of the data over time.

(9) Data on new treatment demands were not available before 2003.

(10) Up to 2001 data cover only Sofia; in 2002 Plovdiv and Varna were included; in 2003 Pleven; in 2003 data cover the capital and the three biggest cities.

Source:

2004 Reitox national reports - Standard Table 4 - first treatments