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Table DRD-0. Drug-induced deaths recorded in EU Member States according to national definitions: sources and bibliographic references

CountryReference
BelgiumAd hoc data extraction from the GMR by national focal point for 2002 Reitox National report.
BulgariaNational Statistical Institute (NSI).
Czech RepublicNarodni monitorovaci stredisko pro drogy a drogove zavislosti and SSLST CLS JEP (2008) Specialni registr umrti spojenych s uzivanim drog v r. 2007. Praha: NMS. (Special Mortality Register - Drug-Related Deaths in 2007. Prague: National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction) Notes: unpublished
DenmarkGeneral Mortality Register
GermanyBundeskriminalamt SO51 (2008). Bundeslagebild Rauschgift 2007. Wiesbaden: Bundeskriminalamt.
EstoniaEstonian Statistical Office.
IrelandNational Drug-Related Deaths Index (NDRDI) uses data from several sources: the Coroners Service, the acute hospital sector through the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry Scheme (HIPE), the Central Treatment List (CTL) and the General Mortality Register (GMR) This is the first time data has been reported from the NDRDI. The data in the above tables is from the NDRDI
GreeceHellenic Police, 2007.
Spain1990 to 1995 State Information System on Drug Abuse Reports.1996 to 2006 unpublished reports.
FranceCepiDc / INSERM (special extraction)
ItalyAnnual Report from the Ministry of the Interior - Central Directorate for Anti-Drug Services
CyprusCyprus NFP, 2008: Skiagrafisi no 18
LatviaDeath Causes Database
LithuaniaNarkotiku kontroles depertamento prie Lietuvos Respublikos Vyriausybes metinis pranesimas: 2008 / parenge Narkotiku kontroles departamentas prie Lietuvos Respublikos Vyriausybes. - Vilnius, 2008.
LuxembourgRegister of Drug Unit of the Judicial Police
HungaryNational Statistical Data Collection Programme (OSAP)(number 1211/04)
MaltaNational Mortality Registry — Department of Health Information 2006.
NetherlandsCauses of death statistics, Statistics Netherlands (CBS).
AustriaSuchtgiftbezogene Todesfaelle-Statistik, Federal Ministry of Health, Family and Youth.
PolandAd hoc data extraction from General Mortality Registry for Reitox national focal point.
PortugalRelatório Anual do IDT — 2007.
RomaniaNational Forensic Institute in Bucharest, National Institute of Statistics.
SloveniaGeneral Mortality Register (Data on deceased drug users from General Police Administration, Data on drugs find in the body of deceased who were submitted to autopsy at the Institute of Forensic Medicine Medical Faculty of ljubljana od were body fluids sent from general hospitals.)
SlovakiaSpecial Registry, SK National Report 2008 (data for 2007) chapter 6.1 (6.1.1.-6.1.3)
FinlandCause of death statistics, Statistics Finland. Unpublished data.
SwedenNational Death Cause Registry (Centre for Epidemiology, National Board of Health and Welfare).
United KingdomGMRs for England & Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland. ONS. (2008). Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales, 2003-7. Health Statistics Quarterly, Autumn, 39: 82-88. Available at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/HSQ39.pdfGROS. (2008). Drug-related death in Scotland in 2007. Occasional Paper. Edinburgh: General Register Office for Scotland. 7 August 2008. Available at: http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files1/stats/drug-related-deaths-in-scotland-2007/drug-related-deaths-in-scotland-2007.pdf Drug related deaths and deaths due to drug misuse registered in Northern Ireland (1997-2007)" published 26 February 2009, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Belfast. http://www.nisra.gov.uk/archive/demography/publications/DrugDeaths.pdf
CroatiaCroatian Central Bureau of Statistics
TurkeyExpert Reports of the Council of Forensic Medicine with Police and Gendarme Registers
NorwayStatistics, Norway.

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