Table PDU-1. Prevalence of problem drug use at national level: Summary Table, 2002–06, rate per 1000 aged 15–65 [see all tables in this series...]

Part (ii) Injecting drug use

Country	Notes	Year	Central rate/1000 ages 15–64		Lower and Upper rates/1000 ages 15-64 [1]				Estimated Number of users		Lower and upper bound of prevalence estimates [1]				Target group, data sources and estimation methods	Reference
Belgium		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Bulgaria		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Czech Republic	1	2007	4.0		3.9	-	4.2		29500		28400	-	30500		Current injectors. Low-threshold services. Treatment Multiplier.	2
Denmark		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Germany	2 *	2005	n.a.		1.4	-	2.0		94250		78000	-	110500		Heroin users registered by the police. Mortality multiplier.	18
Estonia	1 ; 3	2004	15.1		8.9	-	37.1		13886		8132	-	34443		Estonian Police Database. Health Insurance Fund. State HIV Reference Laboratory. Capture-recapture.	1
Ireland		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Greece	1	2007	1.3		1.1	-	1.6		9916		8380	-	11818		Treatment data. Capture-recapture.	3
Spain		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
France		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Italy		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Cyprus	1	2007	1.1		0.8	-	1.4		572		442	-	778		Current injectors. Treatment data. Truncated Poisson.	5
Latvia		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Lithuania		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Luxembourg		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Hungary	2	2005	0.6		0.3	-	0.8		3941		2069	-	5813		Treatment and police data. Capture-recapture.	2
Malta		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Netherlands		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Austria		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Poland		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Portugal	2 *	2005	n.a.		1.5	-	3.0		16425		10950	-	21900		Current injectors. Treatment and mortality data. Mortality and Treatment Multiplier.	5
Romania		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Slovenia		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Slovakia	1	2006	4.9		3.5	-	8.9		18841		13732	-	34343		Treatment data. Treatment Multiplier and Nomination tecnhique.	5
Finland	1 ; 4	2002	4.5		4.3	-	5.7		15650		12200	-	19700		Current injectors of opiates or stimulants. Multiple sources. Combination of multiplier and capture-recapture.	1
Sweden		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
United Kingdom	1	2006-07	3.5		3.4	-	3.7		142650		139365	-	149154		Injecting drug users. Treatment, population density, prison, drug-related deaths, drug offences, police, probation. Capture-recapture, multivariate indicator method.	19
Croatia	1	2006	1.1		0.9	-	1.4		3318		2769	-	4128		Opiate users. Treatment and mortality data. Mortality Multiplier.	1
Turkey		:	:		:				:		:				:	:
Norway	5	2006	3.3		2.8	-	6.2		10229		8524	-	11933		Current IDUs. Overdose deaths, death rates from studies. Mortality multiplier.	5

Notes:

 n.a. = not available.                         

 1 - Interval is a 95 % confidence interval.                                 

 2 - Confidence Interval not known.                                 

 3 - Estonia: Original age range of study was 15–44, rates have been adjusted to 15–64.                                 

 4 - Finland: the original age range of study was 15–55, rate was adjusted to 15–64.                                  

 5 - Interval is based on a sensitivity analysis.                                 

 * - Central estimate based on average between lower and upper bound of prevalence estimate.                                 

 For further details on methods and data sources/comments see Table PDU-103 and Table PDU-104.                                 

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

Sources:

 For bibliographic references see Table PDU-0.                                 

 2008 REITOX National Reports - Fonte PDU template                                 

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