Table 2.

DRD and ORD per 100,000 adults aged 18 years and older in the USA, EU+ (data extracted from our previous review [1]), as well as in England/Wales and Scotland [22, 23, 24]

	USA	EU+	England/Wales	Scotland
DRD	20.61	2.3	11.2	33.6
ORD	14.31	1.22	5.7	28.9

ORD, opioid-related death; DRD, drug-related death; EU+, European Union plus Turkey and Norway.

¹2018 [23].

²78% related to all opioids, but primarily heroin [24].