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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 nonenforcement partners.
 Heroin
 Cocaine
 Crack
hydrochloride
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
Crack Cocaine

Scottish experience majority of misusers
involved in self
manufacture

The Aberdeen
experience

Emerging trends in
Scotland
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
SDEA Health Alerts
 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

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
Any Questions?