Researchers from The College of Queensland have launched the world’s greatest drug survey, to achieve perception into drug use across the globe.

The International Drug Survey was based by Professor Adam Winstock from College School London and has been operating yearly since 2012.

This 12 months the survey is led by Dr Cheneal Puljevic from UQ’s College of Public Well being.

The goal of the International Drug Survey is to make drug use safer for individuals, whatever the drug’s legality.

We hope to achieve perception into drug use internationally, so we are able to inform people and organizations about what is going on on of their communities and the way finest to scale back harms from drug use.”

Dr Cheneal Puljevic from UQ’s College of Public Well being

This 12 months respondents shall be requested about drug costs, decriminalization, tobacco endgame insurance policies, efficiency and image-enhancing medication, nitrous oxide use and drug use in nightlife and pageant settings.

It can even be the primary International Drug Survey to ask questions on the usage of illicit tobacco.

Dr Puljevic mentioned there had been little or no worldwide analysis into the tobacco black market.

“Unlawful tobacco use has exploded previously 12 months, with some tobacconists in Australia promoting packets of cigarettes for as little as $5,” she mentioned.

“However we do not actually know a lot about who’s utilizing illicit tobacco or the place they’re getting it from.”

The 2024 survey additionally contains questions on how peoples’ drug use would change if medication like MDMA and cocaine had been decriminalized.

The nameless on-line survey has been translated into 9 totally different languages and shall be circulated worldwide.

It takes between 20 to half-hour to finish.

“The International Drug Survey normally will get greater than 100,000 respondents from greater than 25 international locations, so our aim is to exceed that this 12 months,” Dr Puljevic mentioned.

“We wish as many various views as doable, with respondents of all ages, genders and sexual orientations and from rural and concrete areas.”