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Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS): drug use report 2018

Findings on drug use from the 2018 wave of the Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS).

No new drug questions were added to or removed from the 2018 survey.

The following were amended:

For the questions 'Have you ever been offered any of the following drugs?' and 'When was the last time you ever used or took any of the following?', the names of the following drugs were updated (additions in bold):
- Gas, Glue or other solvents (Tipp-Ex, lighter fuel, aerosols, NO, laughing gas, nitrous oxide, noitrous or noz) – To inhale or sniff
- Tranquilisers (downers, benzos, Valium, vallies, blues, Temazepam, Xanax, Xans)

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