New data sets released from AODstats

Thanks to the hard work of our coders in the National Addiction and Mental Health Surveillance Unit (NAMHSU), new AODstats data on hospital admissions, serious road injuries and liquor licenses in Victoria are now available. 

AODstats provides information on the harms related to alcohol, pharmaceutical drug use and illicit drug use in Victoria. 

This latest data release includes new data sets covering serious road injuries for the financial years 2020-21 and 2021-22, as well as liquor licences for the 2023 calendar year. 

Bulletin #8 also provides information on the number of Victorian hospital admissions in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 financial years, with findings showing that over half of AOD-related hospital admissions were due to alcohol. 

According to the bulletin, the number of GHB-related hospital admissions more than tripled for males – and nearly tripled for females – between the 2018-19 and the 2019-20 financial years. Numbers for both males and females continued to increase in the 2020-21 financial year, before decreasing in 2021-22. 

With these updated data sets now available, policy planners, drug service providers, health professionals and other key stakeholders have an opportunity to draw on this important statistical and epidemiological resource to inform their planning and decisions to reduce the harms caused by alcohol and other drugs. 

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