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Table PDU-1. Prevalence of problem drug use at national level: summary table, 2001-2005, rate per 1000 aged 15-64 [see all tables in this series...]

Part (i) Overall problem drug use

Country		Year	Rate /1000 ages 15-64	Interval for rate /1000	Number of users	Target group, data sources and estimation methods	Reference
Bulgaria		n.a.
Czech Republic	*	2005	4.4	[3.9-4.9]	[28600-35700]	Pervitin (methamphetamine) and opiate users. Treatment multiplier.	5
Denmark	*	2005	7.5	[7.1-8.0]	[25390-28568]	Drug abusers having a persintant use of illegal drugs including cannabis, which leeds to physical, psycological and social consequenses. Capture-recapture	6
Germany		2005	3.3	[3.0-.3.5]	[164000-195000]	Problematic users of opiates. Treatment monitoring system: outpatient and inpatient. Treatment multiplier.	18
Ireland		2001	5.7	[5.2-6.1]	[13405-15819]	Problem opiate users. Capture-recapture.	1
Greece	*	2005	2.6	[2.3-2.8]	[17335-21209]	Problematic users of opiates. Drug reatment data. Capture-recapture.	4
Spain		2002	8.5	[7.1-9.9]	[196928-275789]	Cocaine + opiate users. Demographic method and combined methods.	3
Italy	*	2005	7.9	[7.2-8.6]	[278271-333401]	Problem drug users. Four different methods and multiple data sources used.	18
Cyprus	*	2005	1.3	[1.1-1.8]	[548-909]	Problem drug users. Truncated Poisson method using treatment data.	2
Latvia	#	2002	1.2	[1-1.8]	[1521-2917]	Problem drug users. Acute drug overdose data.	2
Hungary		2005	3.5	[2.8-4.2]	[19333-29075]	Problem drug users. Data from drug treatment and police records. Capture-recapture.	2
Malta	*	2005	6.2	[5.8-6.7]	[1625-1874]	Problem drug users defined as daily heroin users. Methadone/substitution treatment. Community and Residential Treatment. Prisons. Capture-recapture.	2
Netherlands		2001	3.2	[2.0-4.3]	[21720-46358]	Problem opiate and/or crack cocaine users. Multiple methods and data sources.	1, 2, 21
Austria		2004	5.4	[5.0-5.7]	[27763-31431]	Problematic opiate use or poly drug use including opiates. Substitution treatment clients. Opiate related police charges. Capture-recapture.	8
Poland		2002	1.9	[1.2-2.7]	[33000-71000]	Problem drug users. Population survey of 2002. Residential drug treatment; drug treatment: outpatient; HIV cases.	1, 99
Slovenia		2001	5.3	n.a.	7399	Problem drug users. Police, drug treatment data. Capture-recapture.	1
Slovakia	*	2005	4.8	[3.5-8.3]	[13565-32182]	Injecting drug users and/or drug users of heroin and/or amphetamine. Multiplier method.	3, 4
Finland	* #	2002	5.3	[4.6-6.1]	[16100-21100]	Problem opiate and amphetamine users. Capture-recapture.	1
Sweden		2003	4.5	n.a.	25745	The Hospital Discharge Register. Case definition: main or secondary diagnoses drug-related. Truncated Poisson estimate.	2
United Kingdom	*	2005	10.2	[10.1-10.7]	[397033-421012]	The UK estimate is based on the England estimate for 2004/05, Northern Ireland for 2004 and Scotland for 2003.	18

Notes:

n.a. = not available

* - Interval is a 95% confidence interval

# - Latvia: the original study used 'all ages' as the age range, the rate was adapted to ages 15-64; Finland: the original age range of study was 15-55, rate was adapted to 15-64.

For further details on methods and data sources/comments see tables Table PDU-3 and Table PDU-4.

See also 'General notes for interpreting data' on the Explanatory notes and help page.

Sources:

For bibliographic references see Table PDU-0.