1. Detective Superintendent Gillian Wood National Drugs Co-ordinator

2. SDEA Drugs Trends Bulletin

3. 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

4. Heroin Availability / Purity Increased Production SDEA Activity

5. 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

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

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

8. 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

9. 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 2000. Co-ordinated by the SDEA Drug Strategy Unit. SDEA Health Alerts issued to date - 2002 – 1 2003 – 14 2004 – 19 SDEA Health Alerts

10. Potentially Contaminated Heroin – Jan 2005

12. 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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