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Fact Research Guide

The Fact Research Guide contains headline statistics and links, along with some commentary and critique, on a variety of statistics drug related topics. Readers are strongly encouraged to read complete sections in order that they able to correctly interpret the data.

This document is work in progress. Data will be updated as new sources become available, and new sections will be added over time. Feedback is welcome, especially any corrections or new sources of data that could be added to the guide. You can contact us via this page.

Topics

• Alcohol
  • Units and sensible drinking guidelines
  • UK consumption
  • UK price trends
  • Annual cost of alcohol misuse in the UK
• Drugs offenders, drugs related offending and the prison population
  • Prison population
  • Break down of prison population
  • Number of Drug Offenders in prison
  • Parliamentary Questions
  • Prison information and analysis
• Drug prices
  • Trends in drug prices and purity
  • Price mark-up
  • Relationship between street price, availability and seizures
  • Price as an indicator of policy success
• Drug seizures
  • Global seizures
  • Seizures in England and Wales
• Drug related deaths
  • England and Wales
  • Scotland
• Drug usage levels
  • Global usage
  • UK drug use
  • European drug use
• Enforcement expenditure
  • UK enforcement expenditure
  • EU enforcement expenditure
• Public opinion on drugs and drug policy
  • Methodological issues
  • Polls and available research from the UK and rest of world
• Size of the drug market
  • Global estimate
  • Value of the UK drug market
• Social and economic costs of drug use in the UK