Victorian Drug Trends 2024: Key Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) Interviews

The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) is a national illicit drug monitoring system that has been conducted annually since 2000 and is part of Drug Trends.��
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The IDRS interviews people who inject drugs (PWID) from every capital city of Australia and provides an analysis and examination of indicator data sources related to illicit drugs. It is designed to be sensitive to trends, providing data in a timely manner, rather than describing issues in detail.��
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This 2024 IDRS report provides the most up-to-date findings of the IDRS interviews from 2000 to 2024 with people who regularly inject illicit drugs recruited from Melbourne, Victoria.

This includes:

A report overviewing the key findings in 2024;
An infographic summarising key findings in 2024;
The executive summary, summarising key findings in 2024 and
Supplementary data tables, providing detailed findings underlying the table and figures within the report.

Results are not representative of all people who use drugs or of 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 Melbourne, Victoria.

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Key findings

Recommended citation

Wilson J, Vella-Horne D, Lloyd Z, & Dietze P. Victorian Drug Trends 2024: Key Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) Interviews. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney; 2024. Available from:

Participants

We would like to thank all the participants who shared their knowledge and experience with us in the present and in previous years

Funding

Drug Trends is supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care under the Drug and Alcohol Program.

Copyright

Please note that any presentation of these data should include an acknowledgement of Drug Trends at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales.

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Date published

5 Dec 2024

Resource type

The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS)