{
 "id": "drug-deaths-ni",
 "title": "Drug-related deaths and deaths from drug misuse, Northern Ireland",
 "category": "health",
 "summary": "Drug-related deaths and deaths due to drug misuse registered in Northern Ireland each calendar year since 2003, from NISRA.",
 "unit": "count",
 "chart": "line",
 "volatile": false,
 "status": "Official statistics",
 "notes": [
  "Deaths are counted by the year they were registered, not the year they happened. A drug misuse death is a drug-related death that also involved drug abuse or dependence, or a drug controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act, so it is counted in both lines.",
  "NISRA's own release has a later year in spreadsheets its robots.txt bars to scripts, so the hub shows the years its PxStat portal gives, a year behind.",
  "NISRA revised the series slightly after its review of suicide statistics for the registration years 2015 to 2020. These figures stay apart from the ONS's for England and Wales until the two definitions have been read side by side."
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "publisher": "Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency",
  "publisher_url": "https://www.nisra.gov.uk/",
  "source_page": "https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/cause-death/drug-related-deaths",
  "licence": "OGL-3.0",
  "licence_name": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T14:49:31Z",
  "raw_files": [
   {
    "name": "matrix.json",
    "url": "https://ws-data.nisra.gov.uk/public/api.restful/PxStat.Data.Cube_API.ReadDataset/DTHSDRLGD/JSON-stat/2.0/en",
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  ]
 },
 "meta": {
  "latest_period": "2023",
  "matrix": "DTHSDRLGD",
  "pxstat_title": "Drug-related deaths",
  "updated": "2026-03-04T9:30:00.000Z",
  "official": true,
  "experimental": false,
  "accreditation": "Official statistics: NISRA's PxStat flags the matrix official and not experimental"
 },
 "headline": {
  "label": "Drug-related deaths",
  "value": 169.0,
  "period": "2023",
  "note": "146 due to drug misuse"
 },
 "series": [
  {
   "name": "Drug-related deaths",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "2003",
     "v": 52.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2004",
     "v": 48.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2005",
     "v": 84.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2006",
     "v": 91.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2007",
     "v": 86.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2008",
     "v": 89.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2009",
     "v": 84.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2010",
     "v": 92.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2011",
     "v": 102.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2012",
     "v": 110.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2013",
     "v": 115.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2014",
     "v": 110.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2015",
     "v": 144.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2016",
     "v": 127.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2017",
     "v": 138.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2018",
     "v": 192.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2019",
     "v": 191.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020",
     "v": 218.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021",
     "v": 213.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022",
     "v": 154.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023",
     "v": 169.0
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Deaths due to drug misuse",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "2003",
     "v": 32.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2004",
     "v": 17.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2005",
     "v": 42.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2006",
     "v": 49.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2007",
     "v": 48.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2008",
     "v": 53.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2009",
     "v": 57.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2010",
     "v": 64.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2011",
     "v": 61.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2012",
     "v": 77.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2013",
     "v": 79.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2014",
     "v": 88.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2015",
     "v": 115.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2016",
     "v": 113.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2017",
     "v": 112.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2018",
     "v": 161.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2019",
     "v": 165.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020",
     "v": 185.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021",
     "v": 180.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022",
     "v": 129.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023",
     "v": 146.0
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}