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The EMCDDA uses five key epidemiological indicators to achieve its goal of providing factual, objective, reliable and comparable information on drugs and drug addiction at European level. These indicators have been developed by the Centre in close collaboration with the Reitox network, experts across Europe and with other international organisations competent in the field of drugs and drug addiction.

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The five key epidemiological indicators underpin the EMCDDA's reporting on trends and developments in the EU drug situation. They are also a necessary component of any analysis of the coverage of responses or the assessment of the impact of policies and actions.

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The EMCDDA's five key epidemiological indicators are listed below:

Prevalence and patterns of drug use
Problem drug use
Treatment demand indicator
Drug-related deaths and mortality
Drug-related infectious diseases

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Heroin and other opioids – the current situation in Europe (European Drug Report 2023)

2023
Drug-related infectious diseases (DRID): update from the expert network, October 2021

2022
Drug-related deaths (DRD) in Europe: updates from the annual meeting of the EMCDDA DRD expert network 30 September – 1 October 2021

2021
European Drug Report 2019: Trends and Developments

2019
TDI Methodological information on 30 European countries

2016
Mapping Treatment Demand Indicator (TDI)

2012
Treatment demand indicator (TDI) standard protocol 3.0: Guidelines for reporting data on people entering drug treatment in European countries

2012
An overview of the problem drug use (PDU) key indicator

2009
An overview of the treatment demand key indicator (TDI)

2009
Coverage assessment of data collected in the framework of the treatment demand indicator

2008
Implementation of data qualityand analysis of aggregated data in the EU member states

2003
Development of a core item list for monitoring the treatment of drug misusers (CIT 1.0)

2000
Improvement of comparability between established national treatment reporting systems

1997

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Workshop on drug monitoring and reporting for Georgian national drug observatory (May 2022 )
Treatment database provides new understanding of drug problem (June 2003 )

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Expert meeting on drug-related deaths (DRD) 2024 (01 Oct 2024 to 02 Oct 2024, Lisboa, Portugal)
Prevalence and patterns of drug use expert meeting 2024 (18 Jun 2024 to 19 Jun 2024, Online)
Expert meeting on drug-related deaths (DRD) 2023 (10 Oct 2023 to 11 Oct 2023, Lisbon, Portugal)
Prevalence and patterns of drug use expert meeting 2023 (16 May 2023 to 17 May 2023, Lisbon, Portugal)
Expert meeting on the key indicator problem drug use (PDU) 2023 (20 Apr 2023, Lisbon, Portugal)
Treatment Demand Indicator (TDI) expert meeting (14 Jun 2022 to 15 Jun 2022)
Prevalence and patterns of drug use expert meeting 2022 (04 May 2022 to 05 May 2022, Hybrid event)
Expert meeting on the key indicator problem drug use (PDU) 2022 (07 Apr 2022 to 08 Apr 2022)
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on drug indicators at European level (28 Apr 2021, Online)
Expert meeting on the key indicator problem drug use (PDU) 2021 (15 Apr 2021, Online)
Prevalence and patterns of drug use expert meeting 2021 (30 Mar 2021 to 31 Mar 2021, Online)
Prevalence and patterns of drug use expert meeting 2020 (19 May 2020 to 20 May 2020, Online)
Annual expert meeting on the key indicator TDI (27 Nov 2019 to 28 Nov 2019, EMCDDA)
Prevalence and patterns of drug use expert meeting 2019 (28 May 2019 to 29 May 2019, Lisbon)
Expert meeting on the epidemiological indicator prevalence and patterns of drug use, 2018 (15 May 2018 to 16 May 2018, Lisbon)

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Statistical Bulletin 2023— drug-induced deaths
Statistical Bulletin 2023 — problem drug use
Statistical Bulletin 2023 – prevalence and patterns of drug use in the general population
Statistical Bulletin 2023 — treatment demand data
Statistical Bulletin 2023 — drug-related infectious diseases
Statistical Bulletin 2022 — drug-related infectious diseases
Statistical Bulletin 2022— overdose deaths
Statistical Bulletin 2022 – prevalence and patterns of drug use in the general population
Statistical Bulletin 2022 — problem drug use
Statistical Bulletin 2022 — treatment demand data
Statistical Bulletin 2021— overdose deaths
Statistical Bulletin 2021 – prevalence and patterns of drug use in the general population
Statistical Bulletin 2021 — problem drug use
Statistical Bulletin 2021 — treatment demand data
Statistical Bulletin 2020 — drug-related infectious diseases

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Documents on this topic in our Document Library

European Web Survey on Drugs (2019): patterns of use — emerging findings from the second round (2020 )
European Web Survey on Drugs (2016): patterns of use — emerging findings (2019 )
The experience of the treatment demand indicator in Europe: a common monitoring tool across 30 countries (2019 )
Minutes of the 2012 EMCDDA expert meeting on Prevalence and patterns of drug use among the general population (2016 )
Final minutes of the 2014 key indicator meeting on 'prevalence and patterns of drug use among the general population – Population Surveys', Lisbon, 16-17 June 2014 (2014 )
Meeting minutes: General population surveys annual expert meeting, June 2013 (2014 )
Data collection template for national population surveys on drug use among adults (2010 )
Inventory of the national Special Mortality Registries in Europe, and description of the core data available (2009 )
Minutes from an EU expert meeting on the EMCDDA key epidemiological indicator Treatment Demand (TDI) (2006 )
Council Resolution on the implementation of the five key epidemiological indicators on drugs, developed by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) (2001 )
EMCDDA recommendations on the five harmonised key indicators (EMCDDA/7/01) (2001 )