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Table 2 Health and social intervention indicators for people who use opioids and people who inject drugs being used at European Union level

From: Monitoring quality and coverage of harm reduction services for people who use drugs: a consensus study

Intervention

Indicators

Countries, out of 30, reporting in 2011–2015a

Data type

Additional information

Provision

 Drug treatment (total)

All clients

30

Counts

 OAT

All clients, by OAT medication

30, 30

Counts

Legal framework/providers

 NSP

Syringes provided, clients, contacts, fixed sites, outreach sites

25, 19, 20, 28, 26

Counts

Estimated reporting coverage (%), NUTS2/3 levelb

Coverage

 OAT

OAT clients divided by the estimated number of opioid users (Fig. 1)

20

%

Confidence intervals, estimation methods

 NSP

Syringes provided divided by the estimated number of PWID (Fig. 2)

14

%

Confidence intervals, estimation methods

  1. Available at http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/data/stats2016
  2. aYear of reporting data to EMCDDA–the actual study year (year of primary data collection) is mostly 1 year earlier
  3. bNomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics