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Data on Drug Abusers Arrested (By Main Drug Abused)

Data from Jan 2003 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 01 Aug 2025, 15:14 SGT

CNB (Central Narcotics Bureau)

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DataonDrugAbusersArrestedByMainDrugAbused.csv (502 rows, 11.6 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Status
Text
Drug Of Abuse
Text
No Of Drug Abusers
Text
(Null)0.0%
20216.4%
20226.4%
20236.4%
20246.4%
(Null)0.0%
Total53.2%
New46.8%
(Null)0.0%
NPS8.8%
Heroin8.8%
Cocaine8.8%
Ecstasy8.8%
(Null)0.0%
2003TotalHeroin567
2003TotalCannabis260
2003TotalBuprenorphine0
2003TotalEcstasy114
2003TotalMethamphetamine369
2003TotalKetamine497
2003TotalNimetazepam0
2003TotalCocaine0
2003TotalOpium2
2003TotalMethadone0

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
StatusstatusText--
Drug Of Abusedrug_of_abuseText--
No Of Drug Abusersno_of_drug_abusersText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_63ddff57dda5ad302be6ae35a266af75"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Central Narcotics Bureau. (2024). Data on Drug Abusers Arrested (By Main Drug Abused) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_63ddff57dda5ad302be6ae35a266af75/view

About this dataset

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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CNB (Central Narcotics Bureau)