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Drug-Related and Drug-Misuse Deaths 2010-2020

Date published: 01 March 2022

Statistics: Births, deaths and marriages,  Deaths,  Cause of Death,  Drug-Related Deaths

Statistics in drug-related and drug-misuse deaths in Northern Ireland.

The 2010-2020 edition of Drug-related and drug-misuse deaths contains a revised version of drug-misuse deaths which makes data for NI comparable with England and Wales. More information is available from the 2010-2020 report and the information paper on drug-related deaths.

Revision notice 30 June 2022: Drug-related deaths and drug-misuse deaths in 2020 have been revised to reflect the findings of the review of suicide statistics and additional quality assurance of archived data. Revisions to already published data are minimal with the exception of ASMRs for drug-misuse deaths by deprivation quintile where a coding error was detected and corrected. The revised tables also include additional information on drug-related and drug-misuse deaths by ICD 10 code.

Correction notice: 05.03.25: After the publication of Drug-Related and Drug Misuse Deaths 2012-2022 on 31 January 2024, NISRA identified a classification error in the published figures. This resulted in the omission of pregabalin and gabapentin from drug misuse figures for 2020 to 2022.  The impact of this correction is that the number of drug misuse deaths from 2020 to 2022 previously published has increased from 484 over the 3-year period to 494. The correct number of drug misuse deaths from 2020 to 2022 can be found in Drug-Related and Drug Misuse Deaths 2013-2023.

Documents

  • Press release for Drug related deaths in NI (2010-2020) Adobe PDF (151 KB)
  • Drug-related and drug-misuse deaths, 2010-2020 bulletin Adobe PDF (997 KB)
  • Drug-related and drug-misuse deaths, 2010-2020 Microsoft Excel (396 KB)
  • Drug-related and drug-misuse deaths, 2010-2020 - ODS OpenDocument spreadsheet (303 KB)

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Last updated: 11 March 2025

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