1. The UK Drugs Situation: Data, information and uses Charlotte Davies, UK Focal Point Project Manager 1

2. 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. 2

3. UK Focal Point on Drugs’ partners 3

4. 5 KEY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INDICATORS 4

5. General population surveys Adults (16-59/64) – household surveys usually crime surveys Children (11-15) – school surveys Lifetime; last year; last month Frequency of use 5

6. Problem drug use 6 COUNTRYESTIMATERATE PER 1,000 England306,1508.93 Northern Ireland1,3951.28 Scotland55,32816.16 Wales16,3898.46 United Kingdom379,2629.31 EMCDDA definition: Injecting drug use or long- duration/regular use of opioids, cocaine and/or amphetamines

7. Problem drug use 7 * Wales

8. Treatment Demand Indicator WALESUKEUROPE n%n%n% Amphetamines9477.13,7013.0-- Benzodiazepines3472.62,4532.0-- Cannabis2,53419.024,11219.6-23.9 Cocaine powder6815.19,3627.6- 18.2 Crack cocaine1040.85,5174.5- Opiates7,94559.574,81560.8-50.6 Total14,9693.2127,893460,693100 8

9. Drug-related infectious diseases Report on prevalence of HIV, HCV and HBc from surveys of injecting drug users Also report notifications data Behavioural data 9 EUROPE – HCV prevalence ranges from 22% to 83%

10. Drug-related deaths 10 Wales – 43.6

11. Supply indicators 11 Drug offences data Drug offences data Drug seizures data Drug seizures data Price data Price data Purity data Purity data Composition of illicit tablets Composition of illicit tablets Drug offences data Drug offences data Drug seizures data Drug seizures data Price data Price data Purity data Purity data Composition of illicit tablets Composition of illicit tablets

12. UK Focal Point outputs Statistical tables Annual Report on the UK drug situation 12

13. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE UK DRUG SITUATION 13

14. Annual Report chapters 1)Drug policy: legislation, strategies and economic analysis 2)Drug use in the general population and specific groups 3)Prevention 4)Problem drug use 5)Drug-related treatment: treatment demand and treatment availability 6)Health correlates and consequences 7)Responses to health correlates and consequences 8)Social correlates and consequences 9)Drug-related crime, prevention of drug-related crime and prison 10)Drug markets 14

15. 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 15

16. 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 16

17. Selected issue chapters 17 Drug users with children Mortality 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

18. HOW ARE THE DATA AND INFORMATION USED BY THE EMCDDA? 18

19. EMCDDA’s Annual Report and Statistical Bulletin Annual Report Statistical Bulletin Selected Issues www.emcdda.europa.eu 19

20. European Database on Demand Reduction Activities (EDDRA) Searchable database of evaluated interventions Quality of the evaluation is graded UK adds entries annually 20

21. European Database on Demand Reduction Activities (EDDRA) 21 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

22. Early Warning System 22 UK Early Warning System Forensic agencies Hospital toxicologists Special mortality registers Law enforcement EMCDDA’s Early Warning System

23. HOW IS THE DATA AND INFORMATION USEFUL? 23

24. 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 24

25. 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 25

26. CONTACTS WWW.UKFOCALPOINT.ORG.UK charlotte.davies@dh.gsi.gov.uk TO JOIN OUR MAILING LIST FOR UK FOCAL POINT AND EMCDDA PRODUCTS, PLEASE SIGN UP ON OUR STAND OR EMAIL: ukfocalpoint@dh.gsi.gov.uk 26