Notes:
The new Member States and candidate countries are not included in this graphic due to the lack of retrospective data in most of them.
Index: 1985=100.
A few countries did not provide data for some years (see Table DRD-2). To correct this situation, it has been used the computation method defined in the report 'European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (2001). Co-ordination of the implementation of the EMCDDA standard guidelines on the drug-related deaths in the EU Member States, and the collection and analysis of information on drug-related deaths. Project CT.99.RTX.04, Co-ordinated by the Trimbos Institute. Lisbon: EMCDDA.
Ten countries provided information for 2004 and six did not. Therefore, the figure for 2004 is provisional, based in comparing 2003 and 2004 only for those countries with data for both years. The trends for those countries that provided information can be seen in the figures with trends by country.
Number of cases per country per year are presented in Table DRD-2.
See also 'General notes for interpreting data' on the Explanatory notes and help page.
Sources:
Reitox national reports 2005, taken from General Mortality Registries or Special Registries (forensic or police).
Based on national definitions as presented in methods and definitions for DRD 'Definitions of acute drug-related deaths in EU Member States, as used in the EMCDDA Annual Report and reported in Reitox national reports.