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Drug use in Georgia is a quickly changeable and diverse problem, which is clearly reflected in the annual national drug situation reports (J. Javakhishvili et al, 2010). Injecting use of opioids has become widely spread over the last two decades (Zabransky, T. et all, 2012), bringing the opioid overdose problem to the forefront. Yet, there are no general statistical indicators of drug overdose death in the country. Registration of drug overdose deaths resumed at the Forensic Expertise Bureau under the Ministry of Justice only in 2008 and only in Tbilisi. Since 2008 throughout the following years the death rate ranged between 15 and 39 cases per year, while the cumulative rate of the period from 2008 till 2011 was 54 (J. Javakhishvili et al., 2011; Georgian Harm Reduction Network, 2011).