VICTORIAN DRUG TRENDS 2023 - Key Findings from the Victorian Ecstasy and

82 FIGURE 66: VICTIM OF CRIME INVOLVING VIOLENCE IN THE PAST MONTH, MELBOURNE, VIC, 2019-2023 82 v Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System 2023 Acknowledgements Funding In 2023, the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS), falling within the Drug Trends program of work, was supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care under the Drug and Alcoho. [...] Hazardous alcohol use remained 82% in 2023, although frequency of use in the common, with 74% of the sample scoring previous six months significantly decreased above the hazardous range in the Alcohol Use from a median of 10 days in 2022 to six days Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). [...] There was a significant fall in the (80%) reported engaging in some form of proportion of participants reporting LSD sexual activity in the past four weeks, of whom purity to be ‘high’ in 2023 (39%; 59% in 2022, 82% reported use of alcohol/drugs before or p=0.049). [...] The distribution of participants’ reported accommodation types was in 2023 was similar to that found in 2022 (p=0.130), with 69% of the sample reporting that they resided in a rented house/flat (69% in 2022), and most of the remaining participants living with their parents/in their family house (19%; 26% in 2022). [...] Frequency of Use: In 2023, among those who Quantity: Of those who reported recent use reported recent ecstasy crystal use and and responded (n=49), the median number of commented (n=49), participants reported pills reportedly used in a ‘typical’ session was using crystal on a median of four days in the two (IQR=1–2.5; 2 pills in 2022; IQR=1–2; previous six months (IQR=2–8), comparable to p=0.143).