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National Mission on Drugs: Annual Monitoring Report 2023-2024

Published: 25 March 2025
From: Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, +2 more … Director-General Health and Social Care, Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy
Directorate: Population Health Directorate
Topic: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781836914433

This second annual monitoring report provides an analysis of the progress made

between April 2023 and March 2024 on the National Mission to reduce drug deaths and improve lives.

Part of

ADP Alcohol and Drug Partnership

ASSIST A Surveillance Study in Illicit Substance Toxicology

DAISy Drug and Alcohol Information System

ED Emergency Department

HBSC Health Behaviour in School-aged Children

HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HWBC Health and Wellbeing Census

IEP Injecting equipment provision

MAT Medication Assisted Treatment

NESI Needle Exchange Surveillance Initiative

NFO Near-fatal overdose

NHS National Health Service

NRS National Records of Scotland

OST Opioid Substitution Therapy

PHS Public Health Scotland

PWID People Who Inject Drugs

RADAR Rapid Action Drug Alerts and Response

SAS Scottish Ambulance Service

SDF Scottish Drugs Forum

SIMD Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation

WEMWBS Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale

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