Detective Superintendent Gillian Wood National Drugs Co-ordinator

SDEA Drugs Trends Bulletin

Drug Trends SDEA Drug Strategy Unit – collates drug information from Scottish police forces, other law enforcement partners and non- enforcement partners. Heroin Cocaine hydrochloride Crack Cocaine Ecstasy Cannabis

Heroin Availability / Purity Increased Production SDEA Activity

Cocaine Hydrochloride Misuse increasing in Scotland Forces reporting increased demand and increased seizures Aberdeen Study – Cocaine and chest pain ‘Know the Score’ Cocaine – The Reality

Scottish experience - majority of misusers involved in self manufacture The Aberdeen experience Emerging trends in Scotland Crack Cocaine

Ecstasy Patterns of misuse in Scotland ‘Heart’ tablets Ecstasy related deaths

Cannabis Most widely misused illicit drug in Scotland Forces report increases in seizures of resin and cannabis plants Resin generally of poor quality / herbal increasing in popularity

Scottish police early warning system for the standardised reporting and dissemination of public health information arising from drug misuse. Introduced in June 2002 as a result of the FAI into the Clostridium novyi outbreak in Co-ordinated by the SDEA Drug Strategy Unit. SDEA Health Alerts issued to date – – – 19 SDEA Health Alerts

Potentially Contaminated Heroin – Jan 2005

Harm Reduction National Investigation into Drug Related Death Information Sharing Protocols Public Health Incidents Scottish Prison Service Operation Tower Drug Assisted Sexual Assault Drug Education and Diversion

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