… , and evidence for acute and chronic effects of illicit drug use. We outline the regional and
global distribution of use and estimated health burden from illicit drugs. These distributions are …

… illicit drug use has changed since the original Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study; drug
use … was defined as dysfunctional and harmful drug use overall, without specifying drug type. …

… diseases, injuries and risk factors. Here we provide a brief summary of the work for illicit drug
use… The high prevalence and chronic nature of some drug use and mental disorders led to …

… In this Article, we use data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors …
drug use disorders, and to calculate the burden attributable to alcohol and drug use globally …

… of HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C due to past-year injecting drug use, which was reported
by our group from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2010. The 2010 modelling …

… the burden attributable to major risk factors for diseases or injuries, suggested that alcohol,
tobacco and injecting drug use were important risk factors for global disease burden [12]. …

… To attribute drug use disorders to specific categories of use, we extracted the fraction
attributable to each specific category from vital registration and verbal autopsy data, pooled by year…

… burden of disease estimates for mental and illicit drug use disorders in the Global Burden of
Disease … referred to “illicit drug use” and appeared to be an estimate of opioid, cocaine, and …

… drug use disorders, their contribution to the global burden of disease, and the notable economic
burden … prevalence of these disorders and their associated risks. Baxter and colleagues …

… s disease, multiple sclerosis, alcohol, and drug use disorders—accounted for a significant
proportion of the world’s disease burden, … , alcohol use disorders, drug use disorders, anorexia …