RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
New report finds five drug-induced deaths per day among Australians in 2021
There were 1,788 drug-induced deaths among Australians in 2021, according to preliminary estimates in a new report by the Drug Trends program at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW Sydney.
This is equivalent to five drug-induced deaths per day and comprised one per cent of all registered deaths in Australia.
