Synthetic opioid abuse

Freedom of Information Act request number: 2022-055

Version date: 11/02/2022

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information:

For Q1 a search on “synthetic opioid” resulted in very low numbers, due to this the search was done on the following keywords: ‘synthetic opioid’, ‘fentanyl’, ‘carfentanil’, ‘methadone’, ‘buprenorphine’, ‘Subutex’ and ‘isotonitazene’.  A review was completed and any of the above that detailed issue via prescription were removed.

For Q2 a search on ‘Oxycontin’ and ‘Oxycodone’ was completed.

1. For the calendar years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 to date, the total number of reported incidents referring to synthetic opioid abuse; 

Year	Total
2017	14
2018	15
2019	22
2020	18
2021	8
2022	1
Total	78

 

2. For the calendar years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 to date, the total number of reported incidents referring to OxyContin/Oxycodone abuse, illegal dealing, and/or illegal prescriptions; 

Year	Total
2017	-
2018	-
2019	-
2020	1
2021	-
2022	-
Total	1