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

This year, we have provided a suite of products with the most up-to-date findings from interviews conducted annually from 2003-2023 with a cross-sectional sentinel group of people who regularly use ecstasy and other illicit stimulants recruited from Canberra, ACT.

This includes:

  1. A report overviewing the key findings in 2023
  2. An infographic summarising key findings in 2023
  3. The executive summary, summarising key findings in 2023 and
  4. Supplementary data tables, providing detailed findings underlying the tables and figures within the report

Results are not representative of all consumers or 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.

Latest release date
December 2023

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

Citation: Uporova J, Peacock A, & Sutherland R. Australian Capital Territory Drug Trends 2023: Key Findings from the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) Interviews. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. 2023.

Funding
Drug Trends is supported by 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.

Resources

Date published

7 Dec 2023

Resource type
Drug Trends Jurisdictional Reports
Author(s)

Julia Uporova, Amy Peacock, Rachel Sutherland