Table PDU-1. Prevalence of problem drug use at national level: Summary Table, 2002–06, rate per 1000 aged 15–64 [see all tables in this series...]

Part (i) Overall problem drug use

Country	Notes	Year	Rate /1000 ages 15–64	Interval for rate /1000 [1]	Number of users [1]	Target group, data sources and estimation methods	Reference
Czech Republic		2006	4.1	[3.6–4.8]	[26 544–35 133]	Problem stimulant and opiate users.	6
Denmark		2005	7.5	[7.1–8.0]	[25 390–28 568]	Drug abusers having a persistent use of illegal drugs including cannabis, which leeds to physical, psycological and social consequenses. Capture-recapture	6
Germany	2	2006		[1.4–3.6]	[76 235–198 000]	Problematic users of opiates, cocaine and amphetamines. Drug related deaths; National treatment statistics.	18
Greece		2006	2.7	[2.5–3.0]	[18 285–22 252]	Problematic users of opiates. Drug reatment data. Capture-recapture.	4
Spain		2002	8.5	[7.1–9.9]	[196 928–275 789]	Cocaine + opiate users. Demographic method and combined methods.	3
Italy		2006	8.5	[8.2–8.8]	[318 359–341 022]	Problem Stimulant and opiate users. Multivariate method	18
Cyprus		2006	1.5	[1.3–1.8]	[684–966]	Problem drug users. Truncated Poisson method using treatment data.	2
Latvia	3	2002	1.2	[1.0–1.8]	[1 521–2 917]	Problem drug users. Acute drug overdose data.	2
Hungary		2005	3.5	[2.8–4.2]	[19 333–29 075]	Problem drug users. Data from drug treatment and police records. Capture-recapture.	2
Malta	5	2006	5.7	[5.5–6.0]	[1 541–1 685]	Problem drug users defined as daily heroin users. 5 Drug Treatment Agencies. Capture-recapture.	3
Austria		2004	5.4	[5.0–5.7]	[27 763–31 431]	Problematic opiate use or poly drug use including opiates. Substitution treatment clients. Opiate related police charges. Capture-recapture.	8
Poland	2	2002	1.9	[1.2–2.7]	[33 000–71 000]	Problem drug users. Population survey of 2002. Residential drug treatment; drug treatment: outpatient; HIV cases.	1, 99
Slovakia		2006	4.9	[3.6–8.9]	[13 787–34 481]	Injecting drug users and/or drug users of heroin and/or amphetamine. Multiplier method.	3, 4
Finland	4	2005	4.8	[4.2–5.5]	[14 500–19 100]	Problem stimulant and opiate users. Capture-recapture.	1
Sweden		2003	4.5	n.a.	25 745	The Hospital Discharge Register. Case definition: main or secondary diagnoses drug-related. Truncated Poisson estimate.	2
United Kingdom	2	2005	10.2	[10.0–10.7]	[395 378–423 907]	The UK estimate is based on the England estimate for 2005/06, Northern Ireland for 2004 and Scotland for 2003, extrapolating to Wales from the England estimate.	18

Notes:

 n.a. = not available. 

 1 - Interval is a 95 % confidence interval. 

 2 - Confidence Interval not known. 

 3 - Latvia: the original study used 'all ages' as the age range, the rate was adjusted to ages 15–64. 

 4 - Finland: the original age range of study was 15–54, the rate was adjusted to ages 15–64. 

 5 - Malta: the original age range of the study is 12 to 64 years old. 

 For further details on methods and data sources/comments see Table PDU-102 and Table PDU-103. 

 See also ‘General notes for interpreting data’ on the Explanatory notes and help page 

Sources:

 For bibliographic references see Table PDU-0 

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