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Opiates

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the weight notified to his Department by manufacturers of opiate derivatives and finished products of loss or theft of product was of (a) opiate raw material, (b) opiate medicinal products, (c) oxycodone raw material and (d) codeine raw material in each year between 1999 and 2009. (290063)

The data are not available in the format requested. However figures for total losses including during manufacturing, destructions, thefts and losses are available for the years 2001 to 2007 in the following table. These figures are a combination of losses during the manufacturing process, destruction and stolen/mislaid drugs and are based on figures reported by licensees. We do not have data for loss or theft alone.

Reported losses of opioid drugs (includes losses during manufacturing process, amounts destroyed, stolen and mislaid)

Kgs

Drug

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

Codeine

1880.523

1273.943

1383.577

1762.57

1420.662

1330.045

233.929

Dextromoramide

0.007

0.026

0.005

0.08

0.091

1.776

2.915

Dextropropoxyphene

2.764

130.296

13.14

304.99

136.113

51.721

331.377

Dihydromorphine

0.77

1.037

0.606

0

0

0

0

Dihydrocodeine

12.011

570.047

326.345

49.887

96.236

18.353

14.881

Diphenoxylate

0.002

0.491

0.083

0.021

0.014

1.46

1.89

Dipipanone

0

0.006

0.01

0.013

0.77

23.112

0.205

Etorphine

0.097

0.03

0.039

0.027

0.02

0.094

0.029

Heroin

46.804

51.949

26.098

29.109

39.025

23.543

35.904

Hydrocodone

0.452

0.094

0.788

0.967

44.722

2.596

3.647

Hydromorphone

110.554

99.899

104.177

102.933

87.988

73.491

15.288

Ketobemidone

0.009

0.157

0.239

0.521

1.58

0.114

0.257

Levorphanol

0.009

0

0.009

0

0

0

0

Methadone

5.184

46.574

18.588

21.279

22.711

104.658

10.579

Morphine

2219.643

1728.901

2494.167

2738.084

2714.037

2118.924

1981.159

Opium

0

0.215

165.025

0.001

73.153

0

0.001

Oxycodone

1338.908

379.842

1735.686

987.854

415.843

223.074

71.826

Oxymorphone

0.025

0

0.066

0.008

0

0

0.001

Pethidine

10.401

30.482

4.385

11.061

35.181

7.159

16.491

Pholcodine

3.963

94.612

146.058

109.038

19.03

16.753

4.139

Thebaine

11.963

4.875

5.902

8.618

10.241

2.262

3.305

Medicinal Opium

0.329

0.464

0

1.578

0.208

0.929

0.63

Alfentanil

0.13

0.15175

0.174041

0.17802

0.41201

0.13029

0.059211

Fentanyl

0.774

0.282424

516.72064

1.28224

2.74025

0.84992

0.391571

Piritramide

0.000005

0.0129

0

0.003

0

0.002401

Remifentanil

0.069

0.000098

1.99571

11.834

9.659

0.059321

0

Sufentanil

0.085

0.000026

0.09621

0.045097

0.107012

0.0202

0.030521