Persons served by emergency medical care centres and emergency departments for drug addiction in Bulgaria (2012 – 2023)

Prevalence of psychoactive substance use Prevalence of medication use Prevalence of drug use Drug Prevention

Treatment Supply Treatment Demand Health consequences Harm reduction

Drug-related crimes Drug market Drug use and prison Monitoring of publications Attitudes to legal framework changes

Database (2003 – 2023).xlsx

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Total	2219	1929	2378	2899	2781	2910	2208	3152	2022	2316	2253	3050
By emergency region centres (total)	1787	1492	1726	2181	1830	1936	1492	2119	1160	1324	911	1283
Regions:
Blagoevgrad	34	18	42	31	24	24	31	29	12	2	8	20
Burgas	84	52	74	119	122	101	88	74	47	61	73	125
Varna	164	178	147	231	306	256	284	267	161	278	299	337
Veliko Tarnovo	40	31	5	11	4	9	6	4	6			5
Vidin	43	18	15	25	22	29	30	17	8	12	14	32
Vratsa	8	9	12	20	24	16	5	602			3	12
Gabrovo	10	6	12	20	8	15	26	7	5	10	15	24
Dobrich		52	133	251	111	59	10	11	27	29	38	51
Kardzhali				13	4	7	12	6	8	3	8	4
Kyustendil	11	15	10	18	13	21	19	34	24	22	4	5
Lovech		2		2	5	7	9	25	15
Montana	10	1	2	5	2	3	6	1	4	6	5	7
Pazrdzhik	23	27	32	54	65	29	18	19	22	22	17	12
Pernik	20	12	44	21	31	13	21	15	18	14	15	20
Pleven	4	25	24	14	21	18	12	10	2	11	4	15
Plovdiv	343	200	164	360	366	425	197	347	229	123	221	245
Razgrad				4	6			6			5
Ruse	47	65	71	79	43	84	61	61	41	87	105	78
Silistra	7	10	11	8	7	4	4	1	2	3	4	9
Sliven	14	13	3	21	10	13	10	9	8	2	11	6
Smolyan					1	3	5	3
Sofia (capital and region)	860	701	867	795	524	549	475	491	432	478	14	171
Stara Zagora	13	18	25	33	57	70	61	10	21	8	21	29
Targovishte					1	126	1			1	9	1
Haskovo	1		11	1	24	26	30	34	8			5
Shumen	44	36	11	24	17	16	58	18	48	58	16	42
Yambol	7	3	11	21	12	13	12	18	12	4	2	28
By emergency departments	432	437	652	718	951	974	716	1033	862	992	1342	1767