The Pennington Institute's Australia's Annual Overdose Report 2021 reveals that the number of Australians who die from unintentional drug overdose each year continues rise. Over the past 20 years, there have been 34,728 drug-induced deaths.
This report examines drug-induced deaths, where the death is directly attributable to the drug use, with a focus on unintentional-drug induced deaths and presents key statistics about unintentional drug-induced deaths in Australia from 2001 to 2019, with a snapshot of 2019.
Access to the full report Australia's Annual Overdose Report 2021
