ARQ part II data management

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ARQ part II data management

• Training pack 4 Terminology

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Drug treatment

• Process of intervention directed towards
  individual active drug users offered by providers
  of health, social or community services, aiming
  at ending or reducing the use of drugs or the
  negative consequences of drug use
• ARQ any service provision that a country labels
  drug treatment

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Drug-related AIDS deaths

• Deaths among injecting drug users where
• AIDS has been assessed as the direct underlying
  cause of death
• Drug injecting has been identified as the mode of
  transmission of HIV

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Drug-related morbidity

• The extent of diseases related to or associated
  with the use of illicit drugs
• Includes diseases caused by the use of drugs but
  does not exclude other causes
• ARQ limited to infections of hepatitis B,
  hepatitis C and HIV among injecting drug users
• Usually reported as a (cumulative) incidence of
  detected cases

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Drug-related mortality

• The extent of deaths related to or associated
  with the use of illicit drugs
• Includes deaths directly or indirectly caused by
  the use of drugs but does not exclude other cases
  where drug use has been a contributory cause or
  is involved in the circumstances of death
• ARQ country-specific definition applies

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Fatal drug overdose

• Case of deaths where an overdose of or
  intoxication with illicit drugs is assessed as
  the direct underlying cause of death
• Usually recorded in general mortality registers
  based on ICD-9 or ICD-10 or in special mortality
  registers

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Illicit drug

• Any drug listed in the schedules to the
  international drug control conventions whose
  origin was illicit or illegal

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Injecting drug use/user

• Taking drugs by means of injecting/the person
  doing so
• Methods of injecting intravenous, subcutaneous,
  intramuscular
• Injecting drug user usually refers to drug users
  who have injected a drug at least once during the
  previous 12 months

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New drug/pattern of use/user group

• ARQ drugs, patterns of use and user groups
  observed in the reporting year but not in the
  year before
• New depends on the perspective of the reporting
  country

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Patterns of drug use

• ARQ broad concept including
• How drugs are used (mode or route of
  administration, regularity, frequency, etc.)
• In which environment or circumstances they are
  used (site and setting)

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Prevalence of drugs (1)

• The extent of drug use among a reference
  population during a reference period
• Drug use means having taken a drug at least once
  during the reference period
• Common reference populations
• General population 15-64 years
• Youth population 15-24 years

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Prevalence of drugs (2)

• Prevalence is expressed as a percentage of the
  reference population
• Standard prevalence measures relate to reference
  period
• Lifetime prevalence (ever use)
• Last 12 months prevalence (recent use, use in
  reporting year)
• Last 30 days prevalence (current use)

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Severe drug abuse (problem drug use)

• Problematic or chronic drug use or drug users in
  need of help from the perspective of the
  reporting country
• Applies only when a country differentiates
  between types or patterns of drug use
• ARQ specification of the definition used is
  required

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Sharing needles or syringes

• Using a needle or syringe that has been used
  previously by someone else

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Classification of drugs