Titre : | January-December 2012. Annual Report 2013 |
Titre de série : | Drug-related deaths in the UK |
Auteurs : | J. CORKERY ; H. CLARIDGE ; B. LOI ; C. GOODAIR ; F. SCHIFANO |
Type de document : | Rapport |
Editeur : | London : International Centre for Drug Policy, St George's University of London, 2014 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-189-77789-2 |
Format : | 133 p. / tabl. ; graph. ; ann. |
Note générale : |
Comment: King L.A., Nutt, D.J. Deaths from "legal highs": a problem of definitions. The Lancet, 2014;383(9921): p. 952.
Correspondence: Goodair C.M., Corkery J., Claridge H., Cope, I., King L.A., Nutt D.J. Legal highs: a problem of definitions? The Lancet, 2014;383(9930): p. 1715-1716. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés MORTALITE ; CAUSE DE DECES ; EVOLUTION ; PRODUIT ILLICITE ; DEMOGRAPHIE ; SEXE ; AGE ; DROGUES DE SYNTHESE ; MEPHEDRONE ; REGIONThésaurus géographique ROYAUME-UNI |
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FRANÇAIS :
Meow, meow, Benzo Fury, PMA figurent aujourd'hui parmi celles que l'on appelle les nouvelles substances psychoactives (Novel Psychoactive Substances) responsables d'un nombre de décès croissant en Grande Bretagne : 10 décès en 2009 contre 68 décès en 2012 d'après le rapport du National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (NPSAD) coordonné par l'Université St George de Londres. La présence de ces nouvelles substances souvent associées dans les tests de toxicologie post-mortem a augmenté de 800 % en trois ans (12 cas en 2009 contre 97 en 2012). Les auteurs du rapport se disent préoccupés du développement et de l'accessibilité de ces produits dont les effets sur l'humain sont encore mal connus et qui pour certains échappent à la législation. L'Observatoire européen des drogues et des toxicomanies évaluait à soixante-douze le nombre de nouvelles substances apparues rien qu'en 2012. [Actualité des addictions] ENGLISH: The Programme's principal aim is to reduce and prevent drug-related deaths in the UK due to the misuse of drugs, both licit and illicit, by collecting, analysing and disseminating information on the extent and nature of death. An annual report is published which analyses drug-related deaths that have occurred in the preceding calendar year and comments on emerging trends. The deadly risk of so-called 'legal highs' and other designer drugs, such as the notorious 'meow meow', has been confirmed by a huge leap in their links to drug-related deaths in the UK. 'Meow meow', officially known as mephedrone and now illegal, is just one of a group of drugs called Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), which also includes the amphetamine-like substances Benzo Fury and PMA, amongst others. The prevalence of these drugs in the post mortem toxicology tests submitted to the report has increased 800% in three years, from 12 in 2009 to 97 in 2012. The number of cases where NPS were identified as the cause of death rose by almost 600% during the same period - from 10 deaths in 2009 to 68 in 2012. In many cases traces of multiple NPS were found, suggesting that drug users are experimenting with combinations of these drugs, as well as alcohol in some cases. These drugs have undergone little or no human testing so their health effects are virtually unknown. The report also indicates an increase in the proportion of deaths involving stimulants such as cocaine and ecstasy-type drugs, following a decline in 2009 and stabilisation in 2010. In total, the number of drug-related deaths reported to the NPSAD during 2012 was 1,613. Opiates/opioids such as heroin and morphine, alone or in combination with other drugs continued to account for the highest proportion (36%) of reported drug-related deaths in 2012, a 4% increase compared to 2011 - a reversal of the decline in such deaths observed in recent years. |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Affiliation : | National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (NPSAD); International Centre for Drug Policy (ICDP); St Georges, University of London, UK |
Lien : | http://www.sgul.ac.uk/images/docs/idcp%20pdfs/National%20programme%20on%20substance%20abuse%20deaths/National_Programme_on_Substance_Abuse_Deaths-Annual_Report_2013_on_Drug-related_Deaths_in_the_UK_January-December_2012_PDF.pdf |
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