The New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) included a module on mental health and problematic substance use. This report presents information and key results from the mental health and problematic substance use module. This report is accompanied by a data explorer, which is an interactive online tool, that includes a wider range of indicators, and presents...

This report provides an estimate of Australian governments’ proactive expenditure on illicit drugs for the financial year 2021/22. Four drug policy domains were included: prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and law enforcement. The report finds that Australian governments spend more on law enforcement in illicit drug policy than treatment, prevention and harm reduction combined.

Australia is a highly attractive market for transnational organised crime organisations which are importing illicit drugs on an industrial scale due to the exceptional profitability of the drug market. This report recommends that the Australian government commission research to understand the impacts of decriminalisation in Australian and international jurisdictions where reforms have been implemented. Such...

Report 21 analysed sampling of Australia’s drug consumption from a full year, August 2022 to August 2023. This occurred across capital city and regional sites, covering 57% of the population.

More than 21,000 people across the country took part in the latest National Drug Strategy Household Survey, held in 2022 and 2023. This report presents findings from the survey and looks at what has changed over the past 20 years.