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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
Problem drug use
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* Wales
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%
Drug-related deaths
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Wales – 43.6
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
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
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
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
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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