The National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data (NOPSAD) collection provides national data on women being treated with medication (pharmacotherapy) for their dependence on opioid drugs such as heroin. It also provides statistics on those prescribing the medication and where it was dispensed. The data are based on a ‘snapshot’ period—usually a day—in June 2009. Snapshot data provide a glimpse of pharmacotherapy treatment activity on a specified day, but do not capture the total estimated activity for any given year. However, snapshot data are considered to be a good representation of the total client base.  Further Info

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http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/aus/125/11417.pdf

This report details the patterns of drug use and drug use-related harm for Victorian women. Drugs include; amphetamines and other stimulants, benzodiazepines and other minor tranquillisers, cannabis, hallucinogens, heroin and opiates, inhalants, and steroids. Data includes an overview of drug use and frequency, drug-related hospitalisations and bed days, and drug related crime by drug type. The percentage of women making drug-identified calls to DirectLine help line is reported, separating the calls women made concerning others and the calls made by women for their own drug use.  Further Info

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/drugservices/pubs/drugstats.htm

This report highlights some of the risky behaviour of Victorian and Australian women who are injecting drug users. It includes the number of accidental deaths of Victorian women due to opioids, the mean age of Australian women who are injecting drug users, and the number of Australian women who reported using a needle and syringe after someone else in the last month. Additional data is available on the maternal demographic characteristics as well as the neonatal characteristics of pregnancies to mothers with and without a drug-related diagnosis.  Further Info

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http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/10393

The supplementary data tables within this report show the median age of Victorian women undergoing treatment with drug treatment agencies for drug addiction. The data also includes the percentage of women seeking treatment and the main treatment type such as withdrawal management, counselling or rehabilitation.  Further Info

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http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/10439

The Victorian Burden of Disease study includes data for Victorian women that details their potential reduced healthy life expectancy (or death) due to the dependence and harmful use of heroin and cannabis. Data is reported by age group and includes; number of deaths, years of life lost (YLL), years lived with a disability (YLD), disability-adjusted life years (DALY), incidence and prevalence. The disability weights for conditions is included.  Further Info

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/healthstatus/bod/bod_vic.htm