Understanding the patterns of use, motives, and harms of new psychoactive substances in Scotland
This report presents the results of mixed methods research on new psychoactive substance use.
Glossary: Abbreviations & Terms
A&E Accident and Emergency
ADP Alcohol & Drug Partnership
BBV Blood-Borne Viruses
Benzos Benzodiazepine
BZP Also known as party pills. Tablets containing benzylpiperazine (a piperazine which produces empathogenic and stimulant effects)
Comedown To lose the effects of a drug and return to a normal or more normal state
Chemsex The use of drugs, often illegal ones, to increase pleasure during sex
Chems In the context of chemsex, the use of crystal methamphetamine,
mephedrone, and/or GHB/ GBL
DRD Drug Related Deaths
EMCDDA European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
GGC Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Headshop A retail outlet selling a range of NPS or 'legal highs' and other paraphernalia used for consumption of drugs such as cannabis
IEP Injecting Equipment Provider
IDU Injecting Drug User
MDA Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
MSM Men who have Sex with Men
NEET Not in Education, Employment, or Training
NPS New (or Novel) Psychoactive Substances
On tick To buy drugs, usually with the agreement to pay later
ORT Opiate Replacement Therapy
Party pills See BZP
PSA Psychoactive Substances Act 2016
PWID People/Person Who Inject Drugs
SALSUS Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle & Substance Use Survey
SCJS Scottish Crime and Justice Survey
SDF Scottish Drugs Forum
SDMD Scottish Drug Misuse Database
Slamming Injecting during chemsex
TCDO Temporary Class Drug Order
UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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