The number of drug overdose deaths in Australia has almost doubled in two decades. The Pennington Institute report has found there were more than 2300 drug induced fatalities in 2022, 80 percent of which were unintentional. Almost three quarters of the deaths involved two or more types of drugs, and opioids were the most commonly associated with unintentional deaths. Advocates are calling for a national prevention strategy to curb the spike in drug-related deaths.
