Skip to main content

Table 3 Fatal overdoses by illicit drugs and volatile substances in the Czech Republic between 2001 and 2015

From: The complex relation between access to opioid agonist therapy and diversion of opioid medications: a case example of large-scale misuse of buprenorphine in the Czech Republic

Drug

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2015*

Opiates/opioids

56

21

21

19

24

10

14

15

20

19

6

12

20

Volatile substances

15

14

22

20

18

14

14

10

8

16

4

10

7

Methamphetamine

5

8

9

16

14

12

11

19

18

18

16

16

15

Cocaine

0

0

0

1

1

1

1

0

0

0

1

0

1

Other synthetic drugs

0

0

1

0

2

0

0

0

3

2

1

0

0

Unspecified

8

1

2

1

3

5

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

Total illicit drugs and inhalants

84

44

55

57

62

42

40

44

49

55

28

38

44

  1. Source: Institute for Health Information and Statistics, National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Addiction and The Czech Society for Legal Medicine and Forensic Toxicology in Mravčík et al. [37]. Note: In 2015, the Special drug mortality register based on reporting from forensic medicine departments was transformed into newly established National Register of forensic autopsies and toxicological examinations administered by Institute for Health Information and Statistics. Data from 2013 and 2014 are not available