Summary
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Abuse (EMCDDA) work programme in epidemiology is willing to widen its scope on health consequences of drug use. Within the purpose of the present working program on early warning systems for identification of health problems linked to the use of new substances or new patterns of use EMCDDA was interested in exploring what work had been done in the European Union of the indirect indicator of drug use: Emergency Room (ER) drug-related non-fatal episodes.
The aim of this report was to provide a detailed review of epidemiological studies on drug-related emergencies implemented recently (10 years) in the European Union, and to synthesise information generated by all of them in order to provide some clues for an early warning system network. This was achieved with a systematic review of scientific and grey literature mainly from European countries
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The contents of this is study are the final result of EMCDDA contract CT.97.EP.13.
