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Table 1 Characteristics of selected study cities

From: A multicentre sero-behavioural survey for hepatitis B and C, HIV and HTLV among people who inject drugs in Germany using respondent driven sampling

 

Berlin

Essen

Leipzig

Frankfurt

Cologne

Hanover

Munich

Hamburg

Pop. size 2012

3.375.222

566.862

520.838

687.775

1.024.373

509.485

1.388.308

1.734.272

Estimated prevalence opioid users*

7,000 (2001)

3,000 (1998)

802" (2012)

6,000 (1998)

4,000 (1998)

3,000 (1993)

3,500 (2001)

12,000 (1993)

Number persons on OST per 100,000 pop. (federal state) +

138 Berlin

137 North Rhine- Westphalia

16 Saxony

113 Hesse

137 North Rhine- Westphalia

95 Lower Saxony

63 Bavaria

237 Hamburg

Number drug related deaths (city level) (2012) ♦

113

20

8

21

29

3

35

49

  1. *source: Kraus et al., 2004 [51].
  2. ‘’source: Suchtbericht der Stadt Leipzig, 2013:
  3. http://www.leipzig.de/news/news/suchtbericht-2013-liegt-vor-alkohol-bleibt-das-grte-problem/ (last accessed July 4th, 2014).
  4. +source: Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte/Bundesopiumstelle: Bericht zum Substitutionsregister 2014 http://www.bfarm.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Bundesopiumstelle/SubstitReg/Subst_Bericht.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=6 (last accessed July 4th, 2014).
  5. ♦source: Bundeslagebild Rauschgift 2012: http://www.bka.de/nn_193360/DE/Publikationen/JahresberichteUndLagebilder/Rauschgiftkriminalitaet/rauschgiftkriminalitaet__node.html?__nnn=true.