The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) is an ongoing illicit drug monitoring system which has been conducted in all states and territories of Australia since 2000, and forms part of Drug Trends.

In 2019, we have provided a suite of products with the most up-to-date findings from interviews conducted annually from 2000-2019 with a cross-sectional sentinel group of people who regularly inject drugs recruited from all capital cities of Australia.

This includes:

1. A report overviewing the key findings in 2019
2. One-page report briefing of key findings in 2019
3. An infographic summarising key findings in 2019
4. A PowerPoint slide deck comprising key figures that display trends of interest
5. A methods document highlighting approaches to collating and presenting estimates
6. Supplementary data tables, providing detailed findings underlying the tables and figures within the report

Results are not representative of all consumers or drug use in the general population and should be interpreted alongside findings from other data sources for a more complete profile of emerging trends in illicit drug use in Australia.

Latest release date

October 2019

Use of the data

Please note that any presentation of these data should include acknowledgment of Drug Trends at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney.

Citation: Peacock, A., Uporova, J., Karlsson, A., Gibbs, D., Swanton, R., Kelly, G., Price, O., Bruno, R., Dietze, P., Lenton, S., Salom, C., Degenhardt, L., & Farrell, M. (2019). Australian Drug Trends 2019: Key Findings from the National Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) Interviews. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney.

Funding

Drug Trends is supported by the Australian Government under the Drug and Alcohol Program.

Queries

Please contact the research team at drugtrends@unsw.edu.au with any queries; to request additional analyses using these data; or to discuss the possibility of including items in future IDRS interviews.

Resources

• National IDRS Interview Report 2019.pdf
• IDRS briefing.pdf
• 2 PAGE idrs INFOGRAPHIC 2019 with logo.pdf
• National IDRS Interviews Report 2019_Slide deck.pptx
• National IDRS Figure data 2019 - supplementary tables.xls
• National_IDRS_2019_Background and Methods.pdf

Author(s)

Amy Peacock, Julia Uporova, Antonia Karlsson, Daisy Gibbs, Rosie Swanton, Georgia Kelly, Olivia Price, Raimondo Bruno, Paul Dietze, Simon Lenton, Caroline Salom, Louisa Degenhardt & Michael Farrell