Australian Drug Trends 2024: Key Findings from the National Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) Interviews

The Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) is an illicit drug monitoring system conducted in all states and territories of Australia since 2003 and forms part of Drug Trends.

In 2024, we have provided a suite of products with the most up-to-date findings from interviews conducted annually from 2003 to 2024 with a cross-sectional sentinel group of people who regularly use ecstasy and other stimulants recruited from all capital cities of Australia.

This includes:

A report, overviewing the key findings in 2024;
An infographic, summarising key findings in 2024;
A methods document, highlighting approaches to collating and presenting estimates; and
The executive summary, summarising key findings in 2024.

Results are not representative of all people who use drugs or of drug use in the general population and should be interpreted alongside findings from other data sources for a more complete profile of emerging trends in illicit drug use in Australia.

Use of the data

Please note that any presentation of these data should include an acknowledgement of Drug Trends at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales.

Citation

Sutherland R, Chandrasena U, Karlsson A, Uporova J, Tayeb H, Price O, Salom C, Bruno R, Dietze P, Lenton S, Daly C, Thomas N, Radke S, Lloyd Z, Grigg J, Haywood S, Degenhardt L, Farrell M, & Peacock A. Australian Drug Trends 2024: Key Findings from the National Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) Interviews. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney; 2024. Available from:

Funding

Drug Trends is supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care under the Drug and Alcohol Program.

Queries

Please contact the research team at drugtrends@unsw.edu.au with any queries, to request additional analyses using these data, or to discuss the possibility of including items in future EDRS interviews.

Date published

20 Sep 2024

Resource type

Drug Trends National Reports

Author(s)

Rachel Sutherland, Udesha Chandrasena, Antonia Karlsson, Julia Uporova, Haniene Tayeb, Olivia Price, Caroline Salom, Raimondo Bruno, Paul Dietze, Simon Lenton, Catherine Daly, Natalie Thomas, Sophie Radke, Zachary Lloyd, Jodie Grigg, Sophie Haywood, Louisa Degenhardt, Michael Farrell and Amy Peacock

ISSN: 2981-9318