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The UK Drugs Situation: Data, information and uses
Charlotte Davies, UK Focal Point Project Manager
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UK Focal Point on Drugs• Jointly based at the Department of Health and the North
West Public Health Observatory, Liverpool John Moores University.
• One of 30 Focal Points across Europe.• Statutory requirement to provide data and information to the
European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
• Covers the whole of the United Kingdom.• Work with a wide range of partners including government
departments, devolved administrations, and academics.
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UK Focal Point on Drugs’ partners
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5 KEY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INDICATORS
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General population surveysAdults (16-59/64) – household surveys usually crime surveys
Children (11-15) – school surveys
Lifetime; last year; last monthFrequency of use
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Problem drug use
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COUNTRY ESTIMATE RATE PER 1,000
England 306,150 8.93
Northern Ireland 1,395 1.28
Scotland 55,328 16.16
Wales 16,389 8.46
United Kingdom 379,262 9.31
EMCDDA definition: Injecting drug use or long-duration/regular use of opioids, cocaine and/or amphetamines
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Problem drug use
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* Wales
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Treatment Demand Indicator
WALES UK EUROPE
n % n % n %
Amphetamines 947 7.1 3,701 3.0 - -
Benzodiazepines 347 2.6 2,453 2.0 - -
Cannabis 2,534 19.0 24,112 19.6 - 23.9
Cocaine powder 681 5.1 9,362 7.6 -18.2
Crack cocaine 104 0.8 5,517 4.5 -
Opiates 7,945 59.5 74,815 60.8 - 50.6
Total 14,969 3.2 127,893 460,693 100
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Drug-related infectious diseases• Report on prevalence of HIV, HCV and HBc from
surveys of injecting drug users• Also report notifications data• Behavioural data
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EUROPE – HCV prevalence ranges from 22% to 83%
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Drug-related deaths
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Wales – 43.6
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Supply indicators
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• Drug offences dataDrug offences data• Drug seizures dataDrug seizures data• Price dataPrice data• Purity dataPurity data• Composition of illicit tabletsComposition of illicit tablets
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UK Focal Point outputs
Statistical tables
Annual Report on theUK drug situation
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ANNUAL REPORT ON THE UK DRUG SITUATION
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Annual Report chapters
1) Drug policy: legislation, strategies and economic analysis2)2) Drug use in the general population and specific groupsDrug use in the general population and specific groups3) Prevention4)4) Problem drug useProblem drug use5) Drug-related treatment: treatment demand and treatment
availability6)6) Health correlates and consequencesHealth correlates and consequences7) Responses to health correlates and consequences8)8) Social correlates and consequencesSocial correlates and consequences9) Drug-related crime, prevention of drug-related crime and prison10)10) Drug marketsDrug markets
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Other data and information
• Drug-related government expenditure• All govt. depts., devolved administrations
• Hospital statistics• Responsible health organisation. UK figure
• Needle and syringe exchange data• Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
• Rates of reoffending and community sentence completions
• Published data and administrative data from MoJ
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Other data and information
• Sentencing statistics• Published data, extra analysis by primary drug
• Results from published studies• Summaries of government, charity and academic reports
• Summaries of UK drug-related journal articles• Peer reviewed journals, summaries including study
methodology and findings
Register of research – available on UK Focal Point website
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Selected issue chapters
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Drug users with childrenMortality related to drug
use
History, methods and implementation of
national drug treatment guidelines
Drug-related health policies and services in
prison
Costs of drug-related treatment
Treatment and care of older drug users
Residential treatment for drug users
Trends in injecting drug use
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HOW ARE THE DATA AND INFORMATION USED BY THE
EMCDDA?
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EMCDDA’s Annual Report and Statistical Bulletin
Annual Report Statistical Bulletin Selected Issues
www.emcdda.europa.eu
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European Database on Demand Reduction Activities (EDDRA)
Searchable database ofevaluated interventions
Quality of the evaluationis graded
UK adds entries annually
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European Database on Demand Reduction Activities (EDDRA)
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Evaluation of the take-home
naloxone pilot in Wales
Evaluation of All Wales School
Liaison programme
Evaluation of Option 2
Blueprint evaluation
Evaluation of Positive Futures
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Early Warning System
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UK Early Warning System
Forensic agencies
Hospital toxicologists
Special mortality registers
Law enforcement
EMCDDA’s Early Warning System
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HOW IS THE DATA AND INFORMATION USEFUL?
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INFORMATION FOR ACTION
• One-stop shop for drug-related information • Health, social care and criminal justice
• Unique UK perspective• Allows comparisons between constituent countries
• Information on best practice when designing interventions
• EDDRA, research summaries within Annual Report
• Provide link to Europe• Request information from other EU countries
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DATA SOURCES
First point of call when looking for UK drugs data and information
2012 Information Map Project – create a resource mapping all sources of UK drugs data and make this publicly available
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CONTACTS
WWW.UKFOCALPOINT.ORG.UK
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