Deaths among drug users - a new report
19 November 2009
The Health Research Board (HRB) has today published the first national report on trends in deaths among drug users due to traumatic or medical causes.
Over the eight-year period 1998–2005, 885 drug users died. Two in every three died as a result of trauma, such as a road traffic collision, and one in three died from a medical cause, such as liver disease.
More details are available from the HRB press release entitled 'Deaths among drug users'. The full report 'Trends in deaths among drug users in Ireland from traumatic and medical causes, 1998 to 2005' is also availabe to download from the HRB website.
