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Infographic: clients entering treatment for opioids in Europe
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Description
This infographic, developed to accompany the miniguide Opioids: health and social responses in Europe presents some key statistics on clients entering treatment with opioids as their primary drug, in the EU-27, Norway and Turkey. For more detailed statistics on treatment demand, as well as methodological information, please refer to the Data section of our website.
Source of referral of clients entering treatment
Opioids treatment entrants by setting
Accomodation type of clients entering treatment
Gender distribution of treatment entrants
Education status of clients entering treatment
Labour status of clients entering treatment
Type of opioids
Route of administration
Source data
Table 1. Source of referral for cannabis clients entering treatment
Referral
Percent
Number
Criminal justice system
7.1
4335
Health care system
22.3
13705
Other
8.3
5074
Self-referred
62.3
38216
Table 2. Opioids treatment entrants by setting
Setting
%
number
Inpatient
8.8
6355
Other
3.3
2421
Outpatient
87.9
63811
Table 3. Accomodation type of clients entering treatment
Type
Percent
number
Other
2.6
5458
Stable
20.1
41370
Unstable
3.4
7055
Table 4. Gender distribution of treatment entrants
Gender
Percentage (%)
Number
Females
21.3
15085
Males
78.7
55850
Table 5. Education status of clients entering treatment
Educatioon level
%
Number
Higher level
7.6
3912
Primary level
20.2
10371
Primary not completed
7.2
3701
Secondary level
65
33376
Table 6. Labour status of clients entering treatment
