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Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2006

 

Table A1.26: Current injecting1,2: 2001/02 - 2005/06
percentage of individuals reporting injecting in the past month ; NHS board and council area of residence
NEW INDIVIDUAL PATIENTS/CLIENTS

 

2001/02r

2002/03r

2003/04r

2004/05r

2005/06

2001/02r

2002/03r

2003/04r

2004/05r

2005/06

Information available (=100%)

percentage

numbers

Scotland

38

41

37

30

29

10 484

10 651

11 979

13 308

12 991

by NHS board

Argyll & Clyde

35

38

36

25

23

1 163

1 157

1 217

1 336

1 308

Ayrshire & Arran

39

50

36

37

28

1 155

1 073

716

949

1 078

Borders

26

24

20

12

13

111

79

136

190

211

Dumfries & Galloway

70

76

58

51

47

251

256

200

189

263

Fife

36

48

48

47

41

600

781

973

1 012

1 188

Forth Valley

47

51

51

44

49

279

288

359

369

507

Grampian

49

54

62

56

52

667

928

1 148

901

882

Greater Glasgow

44

44

33

25

21

3 221

3 148

3 385

3 127

2 726

Highland

41

39

31

20

20

170

187

284

494

457

Lanarkshire

42

45

32

27

28

536

407

508

1 268

855

Lothian

23

25

27

23

24

2 024

2 005

2 546

2 969

2 645

Orkney

-

-

8

-

25

z

z

z

z

z

Shetland

34

22

70

47

36

z

z

z

z

42

Tayside

22

23

24

29

33

332

388

524

541

872

Western Isles

25

38

-

10

6

z

z

z

z

z

by council area

Aberdeen City

53

56

68

60

54

325

561

738

504

471

Aberdeenshire

48

53

52

50

50

283

318

347

318

326

Angus

32

23

39

47

52

44

53

101

101

151

Argyll & Bute

38

33

32

22

23

112

134

146

161

146

Ayrshire East

41

52

35

37

29

335

284

181

309

443

Ayrshire North

34

47

39

36

27

557

586

427

461

409

Ayrshire South

48

54

30

38

31

282

212

115

181

237

Borders

26

24

20

12

13

111

79

136

190

211

Clackmannanshire

37

35

49

37

52

54

40

74

73

93

Dumfries & Galloway

70

76

58

51

47

251

256

200

189

263

Dunbartonshire East

47

21

35

20

22

83

82

99

88

120

Dunbartonshire West

39

45

35

27

27

253

295

330

371

388

Dundee City

14

13

17

23

29

186

219

319

368

594

Edinburgh City

23

23

27

25

27

1 432

1 278

1 694

1 893

1 671

Eilean Siar

25

38

-

10

6

z

z

z

z

z

Falkirk

53

53

55

48

48

128

156

166

198

265

Fife

36

48

48

47

41

600

781

973

1 012

1 188

Glasgow City

44

45

33

26

21

2 912

2 863

3 080

2 746

2 330

Highland

41

39

31

20

20

170

187

284

494

457

Inverclyde

48

48

44

25

22

400

367

407

373

449

Lanarkshire North

45

47

36

30

28

379

223

307

801

483

Lanarkshire South

37

42

25

20

27

282

287

300

594

487

Lothian East

27

24

23

18

14

187

241

204

274

227

Lothian West

19

25

28

21

20

217

309

432

536

562

Midlothian

26

37

32

23

27

204

200

235

297

207

Moray

31

43

48

52

48

64

53

67

85

87

Orkney

-

-

8

-

25

z

z

z

z

z

Perth & Kinross

34

44

32

39

35

103

116

105

74

130

Renfrewshire

21

26

33

23

24

418

395

368

551

420

Renfrewshire East

27

22

20

15

11

89

85

92

62

87

Shetland

34

22

70

47

36

z

z

z

z

42

Stirling

43

54

47

42

50

97

92

122

102

153

1 All figures in this table exclude penal establishment inmates and information received from needle exchanges.
2 Individuals are included once within each NHS board area and council area. Therefore the sum of local area data may not equal the Scotland figure.
- (zero); 0 (>0.0 & <0.5)
z Not shown where the number of new clients with information available < 40. Caution is advised in interpreting differences in percentages across years due to small numbers.
r Revised.
See also supplementary information in Annex A1.1
Source: ISD Scotland (SMR24).